LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Some dare devil armed robbers on Monday robbed staff of the Kwara State House of Assembly at the popular Circular Hotels on New Yidi road in Ilorin, the state capital. DAILY POST reports that the robbery incident occurred at about 12.50 pm after three Accounts Department staff of the House of Assembly…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fraudulently converting to personal use a sum N2million that was erroneously transferred into his account. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Monday, January 18, 2021 arraigned Oluwasegun on one-count charge…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara state police command has arrested one person after a free for all among sellers and buyers of Indian hemp in Ilorin. Tribune Online gathered that the two groups of suspected miscreants had engaged in a public disturbance last Tuesday over a disagreement on the cannabis Sativa. However, the state police command,…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara, has invented solar-powered machines, which can prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The Registrar of the polytechnic, Mr Adetunji Oni, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Ilorin. According to him, the machines include solar-powered automated hand-wash sanitiser…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed robbers on Saturday attacked Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The men of the underworld were said to have struck when staffers of the station had left for their respective homes. During the bloody incident, the armed robbers allegedly beheaded a sergeant and some…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A staff of Africa Independent Television (AIT), Abayomi Adigun, has been reported dead after being allegedly stabbed by suspected one-chance operators in Abuja. It was gathered that before his death, Adigun was transferred from Ilorin to Abuja few months ago to join the ‘Kakaaki ‘ production crew in Abuja. Adigun took…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Cult members have hacked to death a 36-year-old man, Bolaji AbdulSalam, for reporting them to the police in Ilorin, Kwara State. AbdulSalam incurred the wrath of the cultists, after he found them smoking Indian hemp in front of his family house at Alfa Yahaya area of Ita-Amon in Ilorin township. The cult members…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kwara, Alhaji Kawu Baraje has said that parallel congresses of the party in 21 out of its 22 controlled states is a bad omen that all is not well with the party. Alhaji Kawu Baraje stated this on Sunday while speaking with journalists…