LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of its efforts to alleviate hunger and support livelihoods across Nigeria, leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has donated more than 2,000 food packs to residents in Abeokuta, Ogun State, through its Fidelity Food Bank Initiative. The distribution exercise, held at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Cathedral, Itesi, Adatan,…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has removed the Officer-in-Charge of the Ibara Medium Custodial Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and two other principal officers after a death row inmate used a smuggled mobile phone to stream live on TikTok from inside the facility. The action, announced on Thursday, followed public outrage over…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have reportedly stormed the Green Legacy Hotel, located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, and arrested some youths suspected to be internet fraudsters. PUNCH online gathered that EFCC operatives carried out the raid in the early hours…
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…
