LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some traditional rulers in the South-West have been accused of inviting herdsmen from foreign countries to settle in their domains. They allegedly harboured herdsmen from West African countries in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State and other parts of Yorubaland. A former Director, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Col. Kunle Toogun (retd.),…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The Ogun Command, Nigeria Customs Service, has intercepted 29, 905 bags of smuggled foreign rice and 197 smuggled vehicles popularly known as ‘tokunbo’ within the month of January to June 2019. It said the seizures were made at the Idiroko border and the adjoining communities. The Controller of the Ogun State Area…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Friday, vowed to dismiss corps members caught smoking Indian hemp The D-G made this known during the Batch B Stream 2 corps members undergoing orientation at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State. “You can imagine how much your…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ogun State Police Commissioner (CP) Basir Makama on Tuesday evening denied receiving 1,000 AK47 rifles and four million ammunition from former Governor Ibikunle Amosun. Makama explained that physical counting of the ammunition showed there were “one million, four hundred thousand and some fractions,” a variation from the four million Amosun had told…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of towns and villages along the Opara Forest Reserve in Oyo State and Imeko Forest Reserve in Ogun State are living in fear following the invasion of the two reserves by herdsmen from African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali among others. Some residents of Imeko, Iwoye and Jabata told SUNDAY PUNCH…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied he was aboard the Ethiopian Airline Boeing 777-300 aircraft that initially aborted landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Wednesday. Newspapers widely reported Obasanjo was among the 393 passengers on the flight from Addis-Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. But Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi said the former…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 52-year-old Canadian, Kyliuk Morris, on Tuesday said policemen in Ogun State assisted him to deliver the N2.5m ransom paid to his kidnappers to regain his freedom. Morris, in a chat with PUNCH Metro in Abeokuta, said his ordeal started when he was abducted by the hoodlums at Fidiwo, in the Obafemi-Owode…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun state police command early this week, brought joy to three parents whose children were among the eight children stolen from various parts of the state by rescuing their children and arresting three suspects. A statement by the command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi (DSP), said that a syndicate that specialized in stealing…