LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many people are feared killed as a container fell from a truck along Ikorodu Road in Lagos State on Sunday night. According to available information, the accident occurred at about 8:30pm at Agric, Ikorodu. The truck, which had an unlatched container, was inbound Ikorodu, when the incident occurred. The Director General of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja. Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic in Lagos as angry Nigerian youths stormed a construction site near the Ikeja railway to destroy things after at least one train passenger died following an accident yesterday. According to reports, a train was moving along the Ikeja railway, with some passengers hanging from it. At PWD bus stop,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old pastor’s wife, Blessing Okechukwu, has appeared before an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burying a live pig in her husband’s church compound, on Tuesday. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. S.I. Bassey told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 1.40 a.m. on September 3, at the National…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of Nigeria Union Of Journalists (NUJ) Lagos Chapel, Dr Quasim Akinreti is the Guest Speaker at inauguration of Maritime Journalists Association Of Nigeria (MAJAN) Power Pen Media Chapel. The Association in a statement made available to our correspondent signed by MAJAN Publicity Secretary McAnthony Onuoha said the Group is inviting everybody…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven persons were feared killed at the weekend following cult clashes that occurred in Ajah, Eti-Osa Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos, residents have said. Sources said four people were killed on Friday night and three others yesterday, claiming that cult wars were a daily occurrence in Ado, Badore and Oke-Ira…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has granted a final forfeiture to the Federal Government, the $40m worth of jewellries seized from the premises of the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Nicholas Oweibo ruled that the former Minister had failed to show cause why the jewellries should not…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government (LASG) has ordered all public and private schools in the state to resume for the first term of the 2019/2020 academic session on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. The is contained in a statement released on Friday by Mr Kayode Sutton of the the Public Affairs department in the…