LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) has raised the alarm over massive rice smuggling into the country. Their alarm comes barely five weeks after the federal government reopened Nigerian borders. The entry points were shut from August 20, 2019 to December 17, 2020 In a statement on Friday, RIMAN Chairman, Peter…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person died, three others injured as the Cocoa House elevator suffered mechanical failure and crashed while some technicians were working on it on Wednesday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the faulty elevator of the 25 stories building collapsed on Wednesday while four technicians were working to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kabiru, a motorcyclist who was popularly called Oluyole in Ibadan, has died. The motorcyclist and a female passenger were reportedly electrocuted in the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Thursday evening. SaharaReporters reports that the motorcyclist was negotiating with a woman when the cable fell on them, killing both…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventy Seventy- years-old Agbaoye of Ibadanland Harry Akande was announced dead on Saturday 5th of December this year at his home town Ibadan. From a statement given out by his family he was said to have had a brief illness before his death which sources had it to be Covid-19 (but yet to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the Agodi Gate area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, following a clash between some motorcyclists and warders at the Agodi Correctional Centre. The clash led to the burning of the Idi Ogungun Police Outstation by some angry youths, while another police station opposite the centre was reportedly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Oyo State, Seun Fakorede, has said that soldiers seen in a viral video assaulting pedestrians in Ibadan, the state capital, have been arrested. Fakorede said this in a post on Twitter One soldier was filmed on Sunday flogging a lady for seemingly dressing indecently, while…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man, identified as Owolabi, and his son, Biodun, were on Sunday lynched by mob when the duo allegedly confessed that they were involved in the ritual killing of a 14-year-old boy, Kadiri, at Ajadi Area of General Gas, Akobo, Iyana Church Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, The boy, who was said to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some hoodlums in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, hiding under the #EndSARS protest, broke into the Oluyole Ibadan residence of the representative of the Oyo Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Teslim Folarin, located at Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, on Saturday. It was gathered that the hoodlums shattered the entrance doors and windows of the…
