LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 20,000-litre fuel tanker fitted with a concealed compartment containing 2,145kg of cannabis, in a major breakthrough in its nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trafficking. The tanker, marked MKA 960 XC, was intercepted along the Akoko/Lokoja Expressway in Ondo State on Friday, 4…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has revealed that security operatives foiled an alleged plot by five youths to bomb the Ondo State Government House several months ago. Aiyedatiwa disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, shortly after a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced four persons to death by…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Monday arraigned five men before a Federal High Court in Abuja over their alleged involvement in the June 5, 2022 attack at St. Francs Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, in which over 40 worshipers died. The five accused persons are Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik,…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A popular liquor joint operator has slumped and d!ed in Oro town, an agrarian community in Odigbo Local Government area of Ondo State. The victim, identified as Orobola Akinduro, was reportedly seen earlier in the day, hale and hearty, attending to her customers. A few hours later, she was said to have…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vehicle in the convoy of wife of the Nigerian president, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has killed a seven years old girl identified as Saratu Lawal in Akure, Ondo State, SaharaReporters has exclusively gathered. Mrs Tinubu was in Akure on Thursday to flag off the South-West leg of the Renewed Hope Initiative to…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular socialite and Chief Executive Officer of Klass Five Hotel, Adesoji Adeleye has been killed in Akure , the Ondo State capital. He was said to have been assassinated in the early hours of Tuesday in his hotel at Arakale area Sources revealed that Adeleye had slept in a room…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed a popular building materials merchant, identified as Ismaila Awoyinka, in Ore, Odigbo local government area of Ondo state. The suspected assassins were said to have stationed themselves in a stall very close to the residence of the deceased at Caring Heart Mega School, Idi mango area in Ore, on…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has upheld the death sentence of Ramon Adedoyin, a prominent businessman and hotelier, for his involvement in the murder of one Timothy Adegoke, a former postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State. Delivering the judgment on Thursday, the…
