LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric has reportedly absconded with 52 mobile phones, money and other valuable items belonging to worshippers in Oyo state. The pastor said he was ordered by God to travel from Gambia to Ibadan, Oyo state capital, for the purpose of the crusade. He reportedly asked the worshippers to pay N4,800 for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo state Resident Electoral Commissioner ( REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr Adeniran Rahmon Tella, has confirmed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the cash needed to offset the payment of ad-hoc staff. He made this known at a press conference with journalists in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress and the Social Democratic Party on Thursday knocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, over his vote-for-appointments comments in Abeokuta. The PUNCH reports that Atiku, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the PDP in Ogun State on Wednesday, said members who wish…
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…
