LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female broadcast journalist, working at Ogun State Television (OGTV), Abeokuta, Mrs. Bukola Agbakaizu on Monday slumped and died while preparing for afternoon shift duty at the state-owned television station. Agbakaizu’s death was confirmed by the Secretary, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Council, Mr. Bunmi Adigun, in a statement issued in…
By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension has engulfed communities in Ifo, Ewokoro and other parts of Ogun State, following the cut-off in power supply to residents of these communities in the last one month. Our correspondent gathered that since April this year, most residents in the communities of the local government areas have not…
By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta in Ogun state, Rev Dr Peter Odetoyinbo, over the weekend called on parish correspondents drawn from all the parishes of the Catholic Church in the state to be christo focus or christo centered in reporting activities of the church in the state. In…
MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when patients in the hospital protested what they described as the ‘poor treatments’ they are subjected to by management of the facility. It was gathered that a psychiatric doctor, whose identity is yet-to-be ascertained, and three nurses…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party Presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, has chastised the Federal Government for giving national honours to those he described as criminals who stole the country blind, rather than to teachers in recognition of their contribution to educational and national development. This was even as Obi regretted…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Samuel Oluwalana, has said Nigeria is losing a huge amount of money for its failure to export human faeces, cockroaches, as well as, scorpions to foreign countries. The lecturer noted that the American government gets $3.5 billion every year because it is…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)Suspected thugs have besieged the governorship tribunal sitting at the Magistrate Court in Abeokuta on Monday June 5, 2023. Eyewitness account revealed that the thugs, numbering over 100 were seen with sticks, and other harmful objects to allegedly scare opposition party members from accessing the court premises. It was observed that the…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four persons have been arrested over the mysterious disappearance of the corpse of an 86-year-old man, Joel Omiran at the morgue of Sacred Heart Hospital mortuary, Lantoro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Those arrested were two mortuary attendants, an auditor, and a plumber. Our correspondent gathered that, the octogenarian died a month…