LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two pastors, Chukwuka Stephen and Ejim Stephen, for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter Chukwuyem, in the Papa-Ibafo area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspects, while living with Chukwuyem, were…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Ogun state have arrested a man, Ajibade Olumuyiwa(25), for hacking one Olakitan Balogun, a cobbler to death over suspicion that he was having illicit affairs with his wife. The suspect had returned home late last March 16, met the secret lover in the house with his wife, and in a…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel, has quit artisan politics, resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Daniel announced this in a letter to the national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus. In the letter, Daniel, who was the campaign coordinators of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWRANGRS)-Hoodlums have disrupted the planned disbursement of TraderMoni to traders at Lafenwa Market in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Our correspondent gathered that the suspected political thugs disrupted the planned disbursement when officials of the programme were compiling the names of prospective beneficiaries at the stall of the Iyaloja, Mrs. Ramotalai Olatunji. It was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday at the Ogun State All Progressives Congress presidential rally held in Abeokuta, escaped being hit by stones as hoodlums pelted the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole, with stones. The programme, which commenced officially immediately after President Buhari arrived the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta,…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Presidential candidate, Mrs Titi Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, said her husband Atiku Abubakar, would liberate Nigeria from what she termed “bondage” if elected in the February 16 election. Mrs Abubakar spoke at a Town Hall meeting she held with stakeholders in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital,…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moved by their actions in flaunting rival governorship candidates, All Progressives Congress, APC, has initiated moves to suspend Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State from the party. High level sources told Vanguard, yesterday, that pressure is also mounting on First Lady, Aisha Buhari, to withdraw the…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Pakudi village, near Obada-Oko in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, have fled their homes over fear of reprisal attacks by Fulani herdsmen following the alleged killing of a Fulani man by a villager. When journalists visited the village on Monday, it was observed that the village had been…