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. …
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 46 people, believed to be migrants, have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital. The survivors were “hot to the touch” and suffering from heat stroke and heat…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Noor Shah Mohammad was serving as a Taliban soldier hundreds of miles from home when disaster struck early on Wednesday morning. A powerful earthquake reduced much of his village to rubble, killing residents as they slept including his wife, father, two sisters and a brother. When he heard the news, he said…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ace musician, Ambassador Osayomore Joseph, who was kidnapped on October 3, shortly after he performed at the one year coronation anniversary of the Oba of Benin, at the palace, has died. The death of the music maestro was confirmed in a post by the chairman of COSON, chief Tony Okoroji. Okoroji said:…