LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-With reports reaching us, this is not the best of times for the Lagos State Police Command despite their efforts to decongest the various detention facilities at SCIID Panti, Yaba, Lagos, due to the lockdown occasioned by Covid-19. Newsmen revealed that the SCIID cells had been filled to full capacity and the…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has hinted that it will review the lockdown situation in the state after seven days. Governor Babajide Sanwo- Olu disclosed this on Wednesday during a virtual meeting with 28 MD/CEOs in the state under the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA). The Lagos lockdown was extended for 14 days on…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Abuja has jailed a man for stripping naked to protest the impounding of his vehicle/arrest for violating a lockdown order in Abuja. Emmanuel Imhoudu, in a viral video on social media, protested the seizure of his car by the FCT COVID-19 Enforcement Team by stripping naked and screaming….
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With reports reaching us, a gang of armed robbers known as One Million Boys have threatened to attack neighbourhoods in Lagos as revealed in a letter they sent. The letter which shows a description of a gun and a knife warns residents of Ogba and environs to beware and comply with their…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has ordered both the Lagos State traffic management agency (LASTMA) and Vehicle Inspector Officials(VIO) to release all impounded vehicles in their custody with minor offence from March 1. He made this known via a statement on his official Twitter handle where he noted that this will reduce…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 19 states in the North under the aegis of the Northern States Governors’ Forum have said they would not be shutting down the region despite the spread of the Coronavirus Disease in the country. The Governors made their position known in a statement after their meeting on Monday. A…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Videos of some residents attacking a bus conveying loaves of bread and a truck conveying bags of rice in Lagos and Abuja respectively, has surfaced online, amidst the extended lockdown in Abuja, Ogun and Lagos state . This is coming after Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari announced an extended 14-day lockdown across Abuja,…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Bus driver Christian did not sleep at all last night after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari ordered an extension to the lockdown in his sprawling home city Lagos to halt the coronavirus. A few hours before the announcement on Monday evening, word spread that over a hundred youths from a criminal gang…