LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The swollen body of a 39-year-old man, Jemilah Abdullahi, has been recovered from a diesel tanker compartment where he suffocated while allegedly attempting to steal diesel. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened on Monday in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. It was learnt that Abdullahi worked as a driver with…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police are on the trail of one Yahaya who allegedly beat his brother, simply identified as Samson, to death for allegedly stealing a school’s property in Ijede area of Lagos State. Lagos Police Command spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. According to him, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Outgoing Nigerian Bar Association, NBA President Mr. Olumide Akpata has said that any lawyer found complicit in vandalisation of conference booths, theft of phones, and assault on officials will be prosecuted. Akpata stated this on Thursday during the Annual General Meeting of the NBA holding at the Eko Atlantic City, Lagos. Some…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry Youths in Gwada community in Shiroro local government area of Niger state has beaten to death, a middle age man accused of stealing a three years old Boy from the Internally Displaced People’s Camp in Gwada. The incident occurred on Sunday when the deceased, a fruits seller in Zumba community also…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer of the Port and Terminal Multi-Purpose Limited Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, was recently apprehended for stealing from a vessel he officially boarded to carry out official duties. The officer, whose name could not immediately be ascertained, was seen with several items he took from the vessel. He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what appears to be a brewing scandal, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has balked and admitted to under-reporting the volume of crude oil it takes out of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and shortchanging the federal government in the process, THEWILL can authoritatively report. Two authoritative…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obianuju Catherine Udeh aks DJ Switch, has berated the Lagos State Government concerning the order it secured from a mobile court to auction 88 cars seized from traffic offenders in the state. THEWILL recalls that the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit) had stated that it…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ten-year-old boy, Master Ifeanyi Umoke, who hails from Inikiri Bernard village in Effium community, Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi State, is reported to have been roasted alive over alleged stealing of a small measure of uncooked rice at Inikiri market. The victim, who miraculously survived the roasting, was said to have lost…