LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted 1,274 parcels of cocaine, other illicit drugs, and arms in Lagos State. This is according to a Sunday statement by NDLEA’s spokesman Femi Babafemi. “Operatives of different special units of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted large consignments…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of port users were yesterday stranded and left with no choice than to trek kilometers from Apapa to Tin Can Island Ports amongst other long distances to meet up with their business engagements as the ban on Okada operators kicked off in six local government areas of the state. A visit to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Illicit drug suspected to be Cannabis indica (Colorado), imported through the Tin Can seaport, has been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), New Nigerian Newspapers has learnt. The substance, made of 94 parcels, was said to have weighed 43. 4kg. The agency, while confirming the report in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it intercepted a container loaded with guns at Tin Can Island, in Lagos. According to the service, the owner of the container allegedly declared its content as plasma televisions, but checks by officers revealed that guns were concealed in the facility. Reacting to the development on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko has raised the alarm that the Tin-Can Island Port, Onne port, Delta, and Calabar ports are currently collapsing and require huge funds to repair them. In a statement issued on Sunday by the NPA General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was no longer business as usual around the Apapa ports, in Lagos, as clearing agents, dockworkers and other businessmen found it difficult to access the seaports due to the recent ban placed on commercial motorcycles popularly known as Okada along the axis. Dockworkers, who spoke to The Guardian yesterday, condemned the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Touts allegedly working for dock workers at TinCan, Lagos, at the weekend killed three truck drivers during a protest to stop extortion and other corrupt practices. It was gathered that the killings occurred on Friday evening at TinCan Second Gate, when some of the truck drivers insisted that collecting N20,000 bribe to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Yagba-East/Yagba-West/Mopamuro Federal Constituency of Kogi State, Mr Leke Abejide, has called for the relocation of the Nigerian Ports Authority from the First Gate of the Apapa Port, as part of the measures towards reducing the gridlock in the area. Abejide, at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, noted…