LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As earlier reported by LEADERSHIP, Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, was conspicuously absent on Thursday afternoon at the historic Mapo Hall venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign rally in Ibadan, the State capital. However, major PDP stakeholders in the State attended the rally with key supporters of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Five persons have been confirmed killed and four others in critical condition after a yet-to-be-identified motorist rammed into dancers during a New Year party organised by some friends at Akinmori community, in the Afijio Local Government area of Oyo State. PUNCH Metro gathered that trouble started when one of the organisers was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command, on Thursday, paraded 13 suspects, among whom were three killers of a United States-based Ogbomoso-born hotelier, Gbenga Owolabi, and a final year student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Rachael Opadele, in Ibadan. The state Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, who paraded the suspects at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has related Nigeria to a vehicle with knocked engine caused by the recklessness and quackery of its past drivers, saying that a new Nigeria is possible if entrusted into the hands of trained, confident and fully qualified drivers, Baba Datti Ahmed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the leaders of the Park Management System in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State, Jamiu Sego, has been reportedly killed and his corpse set ablaze by angry youths in Igboora, for allegedly destroying billboards of the All Progressives Congress in the area. The PUNCH reports that the PMS…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Oyo State have announced that they have located and contacted the family members of the man whose skeleton was found in his house recently. A statement by the police in Oyo State said family members of the deceased confirmed that the deceased’s name was Aderemi John Abiola and that…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, on Friday, killed a point of sale (POS) operator in Apata, Ibadan, the Oyo capital. The attackers took away the operator’s bag containing food, and witnesses said they suspected the gunmen assumed the bag contained money. A resident, who identified himself as Ojikutu, said the POS operator, simply referred to as…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“Peter Obi in Ibadan, this generation of Nigerian youths refuse to be like their parents. This one na “soro soke”. These were the statements from the popular social media personality Daddy Freeze as a video of youths flooding everywhere with the posters and placards of Labour Party flag bearer Peter Obi, surfaced…