LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine persons were on Saturday reportedly killed in an accident that occurred at Ekpon junction on the Agbor-Ewohimi road in the Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State. But the state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Edo, Henry Benamaisia, said only five died, three unconscious victims were…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abia state Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has apprehended a suspected notorious supplier of illicit drugs, particularly Cannabis in Abia State, Chibuike Apollos, and equally marked his residence for demolition. He was arrested on Wednesday during an early morning raid on his hideout at Mbausi in the…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the growing infrastructural decay at its alma mater, members of Igbanke Grammar School Old Students Association, Igbanke,Edo State, have commissioned and handed over to the school an administrative block renovated by the association. This event took place at Igbanke, Orhionmwon local Government area of Edo State, during the Association’s second re-union…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Godwin Osakue, a 51-year-old electrical engineer, who was kidnapped along with his 17-year-old son on March 8 in Ahor, Edo State, has told his story. Did you have any premonition that you and your son could be kidnapped on that fateful day? It was a normal day and I never thought my…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A drug trafficker, Goodluck Igbineweka Odeh, has been intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAIA, with 2 kilogramme of heroin, which has a street value of N564 million, concealed in the lining of false bottom of his suitcase. The 40-year-old suspect from Ikpoba Okha Local Government area of Edo State…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo’s Government Godwin Obaseki on Monday in Benin charged men of the Nigerian Customs Service to stop intimidating and extorting people in the state. He gave the charge when the Customs Area Controller in Edo and Delta, Ahmed Usman, paid him a courtesy visit. In Usman’s company was the Commandant of the…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Drivers and commuters have continued to face a harrowing experience at the hands of daredevil kidnappers on the Ago-Auchi Road. The recent incident happened on Saturday, 20th March 2021, when a commercial bus was attacked at a bad spot between Igue-oke and Junction, in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State….
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-EDO State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki at the weekend maintained that he has no personal grudges against his predecessor and former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, but only dislikes his style of politics. Obaseki disclosed this to journalists in Auchi, Etsako-West Local Government Area of the state,…
