LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Union Bank of Nigeria has rewarded another set of customers in the ongoing Save and Win Palli Promo 4 campaign. Six lucky customers each won a brand-new motorcycle, and 120 additional winners won cash prizes. The third monthly hybrid live draws were transparently conducted at the Bank’s Sabo, Yaba Branch in Lagos…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirteen ex-fighters of the Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JASDJ), popularly known as Boko Haram, have escaped with rifles and motorcycles given to them by the Borno State government, which co-opted them to join military operatives in the fight against the insurgents in the state. The 13 are among thousands of former…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of peoples, were reported burnt to death to death at Saburi, Dei-Dei in Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on Thursday morning as a fuel tanker discharging its products exploded midway and went up in flames. Vehicles and motorcycles popularly known as okada were equally burnt…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command has slammed the alleged action of policemen from the Isheri Police Division, Lagos State, who were accused of enforcing the Okada ban of Lagos in Ogun territory. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, described the action as illegal, warning that officers caught would face…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes ransacked a village and killed more than 50 people in the latest violence in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Sunday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of the northwest in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and gaining global notoriety through mass kidnappings at schools for ransom. Local…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Wednesday as eight persons allegedly died in a crash involving a truck which rammed into four motorcycles at the Sheriff bus stop, Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area. Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the crash occurred around 10am as the truck…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ayangburen of Ikorodu Oba Kabiru Shotobi has said Okada activities should be banned in Lagos State if the war against insecurity must be won. He insisted that now is the time to implement the law banning their operations. The monarch was a panelist at the stakeholders’ meeting on security holding at the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rwanda’s green mobility policy, aimed at phasing out petrol motorcycles, has been in effect for at least five years now. In Kenya, electric motorcycles are over a decade in operation. Uganda’s adoption of the innovation is recent, but in all, the trend highlights East Africa’s wokeness in anti-pollution and energy use. It is…