LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is palpable fear across the country, especially in political circles, as the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal gets set to deliver judgment on petition. Several governors returned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the March 18 poll are in court following petitions by their opponents who felt cheated. The tribunals…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fear has been mounting among residents of Osun State over cases of daylight robberies by some suspected criminals who connive with commercial motorcycle operators to attack unsuspecting members of the public. Some victims of the ugly development in Osogbo, capital of the state, have revealed how some motorcycle operators, popularly known as…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unnamed Naval rating has been killed by unknown gunmen around Ajegunle in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, a development that has caused tension in the area on Sunday. Some gunmen had opened fire on the Naval rating, who was said to be alone during the attack. The attack came…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums reportedly enforcing a court judgment have been clashing with their counterparts in the Magodo Isheri area of Lagos State. POLITICS NIGERIA gathered that during the clash, the hoodlums, who were armed with weapons, engaged themselves in a free for all, creating tension that sent shivers down the spines of landlords, residents…
By Kelechi Esogwa-Amadi LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There has been tension in the political camp of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, since documents linking him to alleged drug trafficking and money-laundering crimes in the U.S. resurfaced recently. A United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois released fresh documents on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Travellers on a Lagos-bound train were stranded on Monday after the locomotive developed a fault in the middle of a forest. A Twitter user, Yinka Seth @inkaseth, who tweeted the incident, claimed that some steel parts of the rail tracks were removed by some hoodlums. The tweet read, “My first tweet went…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a scary but horrific sight Thursday when passersby and residents reportedly found eight dead bodies on the Obiaja River Bank along the Nnobi- Ideani Junction- Uke Road in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. Obiaja River, popularly known as Mmiri Mgbo lies situated at the boundary between Nnobi,…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are some strange things that happen on earth and people see them as mysterious events because it goes contrary to what they have known for many years. However, some of these mysterious events take months, years, decades and even centuries before they happen again. So, it makes the present generation that…