LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWRANGERS)-Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Command has shot one person dead in an ambush with some suspected smugglers at Ebute along Ilaro-Ojodan, Yewa North Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the operatives had trailed a military truck-head reportedly smuggled into Nigeria to the community, but…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former presidential spokesman and newspaper columnist and TV anchor, Dr. Rueben Abati and Mr. Leke Shittu are being fielded as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State by the Senator Buruji Kashamu-led faction of the party, after a court…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Head of the Interim National Government of Nigeria, Chief Ernest Shonekan is alive contrary to the #Fakenews being peddled on social media, the Ogun State government, the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo and family sources said Tuesday. Shonekan, 82, the Ogun State born industrialist and businessman, has been frail…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- No fewer than 170 public transport drivers benefited from general medical consultation and screening services organised by Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) as part of the activities marking the 20th anniversary of the gas distribution company. The one-day programme held recently in Ota, headquarters of Ado Odo/Ota Local Government area of Ogun…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Kelvin Micheal, 28, over the death of a 40-year-old woman, Monsurat Idowu after a bout of sex. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this on Thursday in Abeokuta. According to him, “the arrest of the suspect was as a result of…
LAGOS AUGUST 14H (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-seven members of the National Youths Service Corps who had just concluded their one-year mandatory national service on Monday were involved in an auto accident along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The corpers had just left the NYSC orientation camp, Sagamu, after their Passing Out Parade and were travelling to Sango Ota when the…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos lawyer identified as Ebenezer Tunde Omobobami, has raised the alarm over threats to his life by Ogun worshippers in his native home of Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, and accused them of attempting to force him to succeed his late father as Ogun Chief Priest in Odolua Quarters of the community. in…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has sworn-in the state’s first visually impaired permanent secretary. Mr. Akinyemi Andrew Elijah was, until now, Director of Special Needs Education in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Amosun said Elijah was appointed for his dedication, diligence and passion in the discharge of his duties….