LAGOS JUL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a black Sunday in Lagos as a truck leaden with container ran into passengers and a commercial motorcycle operator ( Okada rider) killing four persons at the Agboju area of the State. The truck had a brake failure and ran into the victims while the container on the truck fell…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire outbreak at 4, Market Street, Tinubu Square, Lagos Island has left several shops and warehouses burnt. The affected three storey building got burnt on Tuesday. According to available information as at press time, the cause of the was still unknown. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Lagos State Fire Service…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver, Ademola Quadri, has been arrested by the police after he raised a false alarm over the stealing of a car gave given to him to use for Uber. According to the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Quadri, of 24, Oloko Street, off College Road, Ogba, Lagos raised the…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two people have been killed and dozens of vehicles burnt on Thursday after thieves breached a fuel pipeline causing an explosion, emergency services said. The incident, which happened in the early hours in the Ijegun area of Lagos, is the latest in a long string of such accidents. “We have recovered two…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSANGERS)-Residents of Ipodo community in Ikeja area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria woke up to receive unusual visitors in the neighborhood on Saturday. A battalion of military personnel from the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army swarmed the neighbourhood in the early hours for environmental sanitation, cleaning streets of filth. Led by…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 27 people were feared killed after a boat mishap at Egbin, near Ijede, in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the boat, conveying passengers from Lekki, capsized when it approached Egbin. An eyewitness, Hogan Bassey, said two corpses have been recovered as rescue operation by officials…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-two Soldiers and seven policemen were among no fewer than 310 Nigerians killed in May following the insecurity in the country, a report by a media tracking group, Nigeria Mourns, has revealed. According to the report released in Abuja on Thursday, Zamfara, Borno and Katsina States topped the list of the States…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 46-year-old woman, Ittu Affiong Theresa Tommy, is now on the run after allegedly collecting aircraft spare parts valued at over $1.4 million from a Russian company under the pretext of supplying same to a government agency. She is also been hunted for receiving over N1 billion from a government agency to…