LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) solemnly announces a calamitous traffic mishap which unfolded earlier today at the summit of Egbe Bridge, inward Ikotun, involving a Toyota Venza (registration number GWA 659 RD) and a commercial tricycle, locally referred to as a “Marwa” (registration number EPE 245 QM). Preliminary findings…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has confirmed a grave road traffic incident that transpired earlier yesterday on Otedola Bridge, involving a Toyota Camry with registration number KJA 126 BH, which tragically veered off the upper deck of the bridge and descended to the lower level. Adebayo Taofiq, Director, Public Affairs…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Monday night along the Eleme axis of the East-West Road when a vehicle attempting to flee from suspected armed kidnappers plunged into the Okulu River. Reports indicated that the driver of a Toyota Hilux van, carrying an expatriate and other workers from an undisclosed company, lost control of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 71 people have died in southern Ethiopia after a lorry plunged into a river, officials say. The vehicle, which was travelling through Sidama state on Sunday, fell into the river after it missed a bridge, a local official told the Reuters news agency. Wosenyeleh Simion said many of the passengers…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight Nigerians, comprising seven women and a man, have been arrested by the Libyan Police after they were found with forged documents while being driven from one part of the country to another by a citizen of Libya who was equally nabbed, according to report from Migrant Rescue Watch today. The Migrant…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Director of Corporate Banking at First Bank of Nigeria, Adetunji Fadahunsi-Jones, has been arraigned for an alleged bribery offence in the United Kingdom. Adetunji’s arraignment came after a National Crime Agency investigation. Adetunji, 45, of Hertfordshire, oversaw the bank’s contact with a significant businessman in Nigeria’s oil, gas and petroleum…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday, as four people were feared dead and many injured when a vehicle conveying inmates to court and belonging to the Nigerian Prisons Services, NPS, was involved in an accident. But the Prisons authorities said no life was lost in the accident. Vanguard gathered that…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA has disowned video circulating on social media alleging the use of LASTMA Towing van to steal a vehicle as early as 6am at Somolu area of Lagos. In a statement released by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq disclosed that…