LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Saburi residential district in DeiDei area of Abuja are now living in heightened fear following renewed activities of hoodlums. According to them, the hoodlums send scavengers to survey the area before striking. The gunmen have attacked the area about thrice since January 1 and made away with valuables, and money…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Third Mainland Bridge is one of the three longest bridges in Nigeria crossing the lagoon, connecting Lagos Island to the mainland. Linking Iyana-Oworo on the mainland to Adeniji Adele on the island, this bridge which is about 11.8 kilometre in length was built by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Though phase one…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A teenage student, Benjamin Basil, who was apprehended by security operatives at a bank in Jos with devices suspected to be bomb explosives while trying to rob them of N100m on Tuesday narrated how kidnappers forced him into the act. Speaking with PUNCH Online on Tuesday at the police Command headquarters in…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A killer squad that disguises wearing Army camouflage has invaded the Lagos metropolis. This squad mounts illegal road blocks at different parts of the state to carry out their illegal activities. So far, over five innocent Nigerians have been killed and their cars stolen in the last two weeks after their encounter with the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 House of Assembly candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Odogbolu State Constituency, Ogun State, Lukmon Adeleye, has lamented the rate at which armed robbers attack people along the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old Lagos-Benin Road Adeleye blamed the non-repair of the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a domestic staff and his accomplice who connived to rob her Japanese employer, Yasushi Murata, in Lagos . The suspects were arrested by detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department(SCIID),Panti. The expatriate who works with Honda Automobile West Africa Ltd, but resident…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The community leaders are pleading with the Lagos State Government to clear the shanties built by the hoodlums and station security personnel at the bus stops. The CDA leaders who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria said that their bus stops are not secure anymore. They said that…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Algerian journalists covering the African Cup of Nations in Cameroon (AFCON) were robbed and stabbed by unknown assailants on Sunday night. The journalists, moving together as a team with other colleagues, were attacked when they were leaving their hotel in Douala. Items carted away included a bag containing money, a phone,…