LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday after a more than two-week absence from public life that led to speculation about his health. She said he died from the heart disease that had plagued him for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran musician and producer, Pa Chris Ajilo has dead. The musician died on Saturday morning after he was rushed to Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha According to his friends, musicians Orlando Julius and Latoya Aduke, Pa Ajilo was hale and hearty when they visited him on Thursday. “It is a painful loss to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Priest-in-charge of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ariaria in Abia North Local Government Area, Archdeacon Julius Dike, has been found dead with his wife and house help. His wife, Agnes, was said to be a staff of the Aba South Local Government Area while the house help was said to be…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A man was found dead in his car along CMD Road, Magodo, in Lagos on Friday. Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency ( LASEMA) made the disclosure at the scene of the incident in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu said that the agency’s paramedic team responded to a distress call and…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people are believed to be dead after a gas explosion reportedly engulfed a Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) branch in Kuto, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Tuesday. Eyewitness reports claim that the gas explosion was triggered by a petrol laden tanker that fell opposite the bank, spilling its content to…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The driver of a ride-hailing service, identified simply as Tade, recently lost his life to armed robbers, who shot him dead around Badore in the Ajah area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that a yet-to-be-identified customer requested Tade’s service to convey him to a destination in the state and he drove…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US based Nigerian medical doctor has shot his wife and thereafter turned the gun on himself. The incident happened in Texas , Saturday morning . The couple whose wife is a nurse are blessed with three children. No one could tell the reason for his action but this is how USA…
No fewer than five persons have died in a stampede at the Tii-Ama inks nation market centre in Rumuodara. Thousands of people from Obio Akpor, Emohua and Ikwerre local government areas where told to gather there by their exchangers, Pinkcoin, an online blockchain digital assets firm, to buy market from the amount in their wallet,…
