LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Calm has returned to the Lagos Campus of the Nigerian Law School after the news broke that there was a fire outage at the campus located on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island. During a visit to the institution on Thursday, the Head of Administration, Dr Nathan Akubumadu confirmed the fire incident but…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC) on Wednesday re-arraigned an assistant pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Lagos, Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun for allegedly issuing dud cheques of $1.6 million. Oluokun was arraigned alongside his company Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Limited, before Justice…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A clandestine laboratory for the production of Hashish Oil, a derivative from Cannabis sativa has been dismantled by the Serious Enforcement Team of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The laboratory was located in an apartment on No. 7, Imam Augusto Close, Victoria Island-Lagos. In the course of the operation code-named Hash-Caste,…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Access Bank Plc has temporarily closed its Ligali Ayorinde branch in Victoria Island, Lagos after a visitor tested positive for coronavirus. “We have confirmed that an individual who visited our Ligali Ayorinde branch on Monday 16th March 2020, has tested positive for coronavirus,” Accessbank said in a statement on Monday. “He was…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, was on Friday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Wigwe was picked up at the Bank’s head office in Victoria Island, Lagos State. Sources said he spent the night at the Lagos State office of the EFCC. Although details…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Monday succeeded in evacuating a lion found at a private home around Victoria Island of Lagos to a zoo in Omu Resorts, Lekki. Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that the exercise was carried out in conjunction with officials of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have surrounded a house being guarded by a lion on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island. PUNCH Metro gathered that the officials had been deployed in the house since Friday after residents petitioned the state government on the presence of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government Friday alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the lagoon to discharge water into the ocean causing backflow into the drainage channels. In a statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, the officials of the state…