LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry youths in Lafiagi, headquarters of Edu local government, on Monday stormed the Palace of their monarch, the Emir of Lafiagi, and the office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the town and set them ablaze over unabated Kidnappings in the area. Tension had gripped the Lafiagi community on…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo, a former senator and ex-governor of Kwara State, is dead. According to family sources who spoke to TheCable, Adebayo passed away early Wednesday morning in Abuja. He was 84 years old. Born on February 24, 1941, in the Igbaja community of Kwara State, Adebayo served as governor of…
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 MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A tragic boat mishap in the Gbajibo-Mudi community of Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State has claimed 37 lives. The incident which occurred on Thursday around 6:00 p.m. was reportedly caused by overloading. This comes barely seven months after a similar tragedy in the state claimed over 106 lives. According to…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara state Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Alh Idris Abubakar Sakaina was shot dead by unknown gunmen Saturday evening. The spokesperson of MACBAN in the state, who confirmed the death, said he was returning home around 10 pm when he was shot dead in front of his residence….
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Local hunters and vigilantes have rescued the five abducted wedding guests who were on their way to Odo-Owa community in Kwara State from Kogi State. The victims who were abducted last Saturday at Obbo-Ayegunle at about 4 pm by gunmen in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara state, were rescued by local…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A prison inmate at the Oke-Kura Correctional Centre in Ilorin, Kwara State capital has shot and wounded a roadside vulcaniser. This happened on Friday when some prison inmates were being led out of the facility. But one of the inmates seized a warder’s rifle and fired some shots which hit the unidentified…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three siblings of the same parents – a boy and two girls – have died of suffocation inside a car parked in their residential quarters in Ilorin, Kwara State. The incident happened on Sunday. Their mother, Shade Silifat, who had out to buy noodles for their school meals on Monday, fainted due to…