LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons have been hospitalised after a Diamond training aircraft operated by the Aviation Training School in Ilorin crash-landed, The PUNCH has learned. The incidents, according to staff members of the aviation training school, occurred around 4:00 pm on Saturday. The unfortunate incident occurred during a simulated instrument approach on Runway 05…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Awoleye Oluwatofunmi, who allegedly defrauded an American national, Vonapolouis Moss, of $ 1000. The state Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, disclosed this while parading the suspect before reporters at the police headquarters, Ilorin, on Friday. He said the suspect presented himself…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Further to his consultations towards the 2023 presidential election, the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has canvassed a new Nigeria where production, rather than sharing formula, would be the new song, insisting that there was after all, nothing to share again in Nigeria. Obi made this call Friday while…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria’s ambassador to the Republic of Netherlands, Dr Nimota Nihinlola Akanbi, has clarified that the sumptuously stuffed plate of food her police orderly was seen carrying after her food at a buffet in viral video was not hers but the policeman’s. It is, however, unclear if police regulations allow a policeman…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The proprietor of Markaz Arabic and Islamic Training Institute, Agege, Lagos, Sheikh Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory, reportedly suffered a stroke during a sermon in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The incident, Daily Trust reliably gathered, occurred on Thursday during the Nikkah ceremony of the daughter of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Alfa…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 persons reportedly died in a lone auto crash involving an 18-seater commercial Hiace bus, in a town near Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, yesterday. It was gathered that the accident occurred at a location called Iyemoja along the Olooru-Okolowo area of the Ilorin-Jebba expressway in the Moro Local…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Ilorin Magistrates on Wednesday remanded Usman Abdulkareem, a husband, at a correctional facility for allegedly conspiring with a local medicine man and a friend to abduct his wife, Mumeenat for money ritual. It was gathered that Abdulkareem conspired with the medicine man, Babatunde Mohammed and a friend Fatai…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Irate Mob suspected to have been instigated by smuggling syndicates within the Sector 3 operation area of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, laid a two day siege on checkpoint and logistic office of the services, around Ilesha Baruba, Kwara State, Daily Independent gathered yesterday. In the incident that reportedly led to the…