LAGOS AUUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Documents have surfaced on how global rights group, Amnesty International, wrote letters to military dictators and high-handed Presidents demanding the release of several persons who are now key members of today’s government. Some of the personalities who AI intervened on their behalf include: President Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu;…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital has convicted three accused persons for vandalizing official patrol vehicle attached to Team “H” Roving “A” Anti-Smuggling Patrol Team at Ashipa forest on 22nd September, 2017. The accused persons, Yakubu Olamide, Paul Ayinla, and Ayinde Adebayo, was said to be guilty jointly…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWRANGERS)-Chiemela Iroha, one of the five persons abducted off the Lagos─Ore Expressway at Ogbere (Ogun State) has given insight into why the “Fulani herdsmen” kidnapped and herded them into the forest. Iroha and four others – as Chidioze Eluwa, Okoro Ohowukwe, Ndubuizi Owuabueze, and Ibeleji Chidinma ─ were abducted at the J3,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun Police Command has confirmed the kidnapping of five persons by gunmen at J3/J4 Area, Ogbere, on the Benin-Ijebu-Ode-Sagamu expressway. General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, announced the abduction of the clerics on Friday at the Redeemed Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Adeboye, while charging the congregation to pray…
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…
