LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq says he plans to approach the State House of Assembly to repeal the law granting pensions to former governors and their deputies in the state. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had made similar moves earlier in the week while presenting the 2021 budget of N1.155 trillion. In…
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 JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A serous physical fight reportedly erupted between two prominent female commissioners under Governor Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaq few days back over secret handling , diversion and mismanagements of local government fund by some blocks within the government which did not favour one of the commissioners, a top government sources has revealed to this medium…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday accused the Chairman, Nigerian Union of Teachers in Kwara State and the Permanent Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board among others of diverting N31 million meant for payment of teachers’ salaries. A statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the commission,…
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 MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A corps member has died hours after complaining of stomach pain. Idemudia Jude, a Batch C Stream A corps member serving in Sokoto state, complained of stomach pain on Monday night, March 9. He was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after. The deceased was a Food Technology graduate of the…
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 OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has congratulated the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) on the occasion of its fourth annual conference holding on October 4, 2019 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. This is contained in a goodwill message sent to the association by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, on…