LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 125 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Hundreds were also hurt in aftermath of home team Arema FC’s loss to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium late on Saturday in Malang, East Java. The crush…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kenyan lawyer charged at the International Criminal Court with bribing witnesses in the collapsed trial of President William Ruto six years ago has died, Kenyan media reported on Tuesday. Citizen Television and Standard Newspapers reported that Paul Gicheru had been found dead at his home in Nairobi’s Karen area, citing information…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three female students of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus, Anambra State were on Saturday found dead in their hostel. A source identified the students as Obidiaso Chidera (200-level Political Science student), Mercy (200-level Pharmacy student), and Emmanuella (200-level Business Administration). The cause of their deaths could not immediately be ascertained…
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 SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canadian battle rapper Pat Stay was fatally stabbed in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was 36. Local police said the incident happened in downtown Halifax early Sunday. Stay was found with stab wounds and was taken to a hospital where he later died. His death has been ruled a homicide and is being…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has slammed All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accusing him of wishing the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters dead. POSN in a statement issued on Wednesday observed with dismay that Tinubu has refused to condemn the obituary…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Muhammad Barkindo, is dead. Barkindo died late Tuesday. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced Barkindo’s death in a tweeted posted to his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday. “We lost our esteemed…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of a missing Nigerian man has been found and recovered from Okanagan Lake, Canada. 34-year old Oluwaseun Samson Adedeji from Calgary had been missing since June 18. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed on Monday that the body pulled from Okanagan Lake by its Underwater Recovery Team was Mr Adedeji’s. …