LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old mechanic, Akinola Olatunji, has landed in trouble after one of his colleagues allegedly bolted away with a vehicle belonging to a client and had remained incommunicado. The Point gathered that Olatunji, who operates at the popular Ajegunle motor spare parts market in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, was given a…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vulcaniser, simply identified as Bolaji, was killed on Saturday after loose stray tyres from an articulated vehicle knocked him down in front of his vulcaniser stand, at Fakunle Area, Osogbo, Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the accident, which occurred at about 7.00 a.m, left many sympathisers traumatised, as…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The head of the aborigine Ogboni fraternity, Oba Adetoyese Olakisan, and two others have reportedly died in an accident while chasing kidnappers of his wives in Osun State. In the accident was a policeman who is the officer in charge of Oke-mesi in Obokun Local Government and one other woman. It was…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political thugs sent to Ila by an alleged All Progressive Congress chieftain to disrupt elections from Iragbiji, Boripe LG has been nabbed by men of the security operatives in charge of surveillance in Ila LG in the early hours of today. They were arrested in their hideouts in an abandoned hotel in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people on Friday died in a well at a construction site in the Owode area of Ede, Osun State. The deceased, a cleric, Adebayo Oluwasina, 46; Lateef Adediran, 22; and Waliu Adediran, 31; met their death while attempting to recover a bucket that fell into a well. A resident of Alaro…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE Mobile Money business popularly known as Point of Sales (POS) is crumpling in the State of Osun, investigations have revealed. Majority of the people in the business have abandoned it following their inability to access cash, owing to the lingering cash crunch induced by the Central Bank of Nigeria. OSUN DEFENDER…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the forthcoming presidential election, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress and his campaign teams were in Osogbo, Osun State, earlier on Thursday for the party’s campaign. However, during the campaign rally, the presidential candidate of the party, Ahmed Tinubu, made a mistake in his statement while sharing his manifesto…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun…
