LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Fulani herdsmen, on Thursday, attacked Owode-Ketu and Ijoun villages in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State and reportedly killed two persons. Our correspondent gathered that the victims, Isiaka Apesin and Oguntosin Adebayo, were killed on their way to their farms by the herdsmen, who laid an ambush for them….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi (Ojaja 11) and Eselu of Iseluland, Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, were engaged in hot exchanges over herdsmen’s reported attacks in several villages in Ogun State. In an exclusive story on January 23, The Nation had reported how herdsmen who…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Not a few residents of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in the communities, prompting residents and monarchs to cry out to the military and state government for help, KUNLE AKINRINADE reports. Seye Mulero panted like a rat that…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people are believed to be dead after a gas explosion reportedly engulfed a Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) branch in Kuto, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Tuesday. Eyewitness reports claim that the gas explosion was triggered by a petrol laden tanker that fell opposite the bank, spilling its content to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-One person was shot dead and three customs officers were also wounded as they confronted rice smugglers at Kikelomo Area of Ayetoro in Ogun State on Tuesday. The wounded Customs officers serve at the Federal Operations Unit Zone “A’’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Deputy Comptroller, Usman Yahaya, said at about…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A car washer, Idris Ayotunde was on Friday arrested by men of the Ogun State Police command with maroon coloured Ford car with registration number EPE 707 FM, which he stole from his customer in Lagos. The suspect, according to a statement issued by the command image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of four policemen at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state. Some hoodlums had reportedly waylaid a team of policemen in the village on Thursday, abducted four of them and shot…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Obasanjo Motherless Children’s Home in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The five children were said to have disappeared from the facility last Thursday night into thin air and their whereabouts have still not been traced by the Ogun State Government the owner and operator of the orphanage home. However, the state government said it…
