LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas explosion has occurred at the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential library in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital. The explosion, which happened on Thursday morning at the event centre within the library complex, is said to have led to the death of a technician. Some workers at the facility were said to be on…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former American sprinter Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400m champion, has died aged 74, The PUNCH reports. Evans suffered a stroke last week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and has been on life support at the Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan-Remo. Retired footballer and 1980 AFCON winner Segun Odegbami, a close…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A technician and another person have been killed in a gas explosion that rocked Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The hotel, located at Okemosan, is owned by a former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel. According to Daily Post, three others were said to have sustained injuries in the explosion…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two members of a smuggling syndicate were confirmed dead, while five security operatives sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries during a gun duel between smugglers and a joint border patrol team of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday at the Oja Odan area of Yewa North local government area of Ogun…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed hoodlums in the Ketu area of Lagos State stabbed Oluwakemi Odugbesan, a mother of three, to death while trying to rob her of her mobile phone and handbag. The 41-year-old victim from Ogun State, who was returning home from a church vigil, was attacked a few minutes past 6:00 am, at…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Tuesday killed a disc jockey, Adeyemi Bankole, in Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was gathered that the assailants accosted the 35-year-old in the Adesan area of Mowe around 11pm when he was about to board a motorcycle to his house. PUNCH Metro learnt…
LAGOS MARH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Samuel Perry, a comic-actor better known as Broda Shaggi, says poverty made him consider a career in entertainment. The comedian brought the revelation to light during a movie premiere in Lagos. Shaggi said he left his hometown in Ikenne, Ogun state for Lagos after the demise of his father to stay with…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eighty-two years old, head of Adogun Itele family, Pa Nurudeen Akapo and four other principal members of the family have asked an Ogun state high court to restrain former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his farm, Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited, from further trespassing on their family land measuring 464.77 hectares situated at Sogunro-Itele…
