LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper has been shot dead by a joint security operatives during a mission to rescue 13 persons who were abducted at Isua, headquarters of Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The 13 persons were heading to Abuja when gunmen abducted and marched them into the forest. A source said…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck during the weekend in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State following the killing of an 80-year-old grandmother. The body of the octogenarian was found inside her farm in the Costain axis of the local government following suspicion that she had been raped before her assailants murdered her. Before her…
LAGOS AY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 56-year-old former boxer, Moses Olapade, reportedly beat his wife, Tinuke, to a coma while the couple were arguing over a television remote. The incident was said to have occurred at their residence located at Oke-Aro Community in Akure, the capital of Ondo State. According to a source who does not want…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A magistrates’ court in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, on Thursday ordered the detention of a 56-year-old pastor named Emmanuel Adebayo in connection with the alleged murder of Toyin Olatunji, 50. Pastor Emmanuel Adebayo of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) was detained at the Corecctional home in relation to the…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 75-year-old grandmother, Mrs Iforiti Oloro, who set her own son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, ablaze in Ondo state, is dead. Mrs Oloro died at the hospital where she was rushed for treatment after her health condition got deteriorated. The old woman had penultimate weekend set fire on her own son; Victor,…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 80 Point of Sales (PoS) agents, suspected to be buying and selling money to members of the public with higher interest have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Ondo state. Vanguard gathered that the officials of the commission carried out the exercise…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 75-year-old grandmother, identified as Iforiti Oloro, has allegedly set her son, daughter-inlaw and two grandchildren ablaze in the Aponmu area of Ondo State capital Akure. The grandmother who lives in the same compound as her son reportedly woke up at midnight while the family slept and set the house on fire….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Justice Lokulo-Sodipe, is dead. He died at the age of 67. The judge was said to have slumped in his office while dressing up to attend a court session. It was gathered that all attempts to revive him…