LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWRANGERS)-Academic activities were yesterday suspended following the gruesome murder of a lecturer of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Mr. Taiwo Akinyemi, by kidnappers. Akinyemi was abducted on Tuesday along with three others near Amurin Village along Owo-Akure Road. The killing may be due to the inability of the kidnappers to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In keeping with its promise to brief members of the public of what, why and how Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, aged 67 years was killed at his No.3B, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command hereby gives a brief of what transpired in the deceased home on Wednesday,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has destroyed drugs weighing 110.542 tons in Akure, Ondo State. This is the single largest public destruction of exhibits by burning, coming after the one by Edo State which gross weight was 136 tons. The drugs, mainly Cannabis sativa, were some of the seizures made by…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akure, the Ondo State capital, is currently witnessing massive protest against officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, as a result of the alleged killing of two siblings by men of the corps. A motorcyclist, whose name is still unknown, was said to have been knocked down by an…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42 year-old man, ldowu Benson has been nabbed by men of the Nigeria Police for allegedly choping-off two of his wife’s fingers for the purposes of money ritual. The incident occurred in Oba-Ile, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. Idowu, who was said to have pretended as an assassin,…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In protest over the killing of one of them, Tunde Nafiu, the people of Iwo town in Osun State, South West of Nigeria, have set a police station ablaze. Nafiu was said to have been killed by members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. Nafiu, described as a student of the Federal…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Segun Daniel, a 29-year-old farmer has allegedly beaten his mother-in-law, Mrs Beatrice Lajuwoni, to death at Abusoro village in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was learnt that the marriage between Daniel and Olamiotan, daughter of the deceased, broke up after producing a child. Sources said the late woman was…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Magistrate Banji Ayeomoni of Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, together with his son Dara, another relation and his driver were reported dead in an inferno caused by a petrol tanker spillage in Ekpoma. An official of the court, who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident happened on Friday night…