LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. Authorities broke through a door at Garcia’s mansion in a leafy, upscale…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior officer of the Nigeria Customs Service has died after he was attacked by a swarm of bees while on patrol duty. Abba Abubakar, an officer operating at the Seme customs command, along Ashipa axis of Badagry, Lagos, met his untimely death Tuesday after he was stung by the bees, the…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death has been announced of Madam Margaret Umunna Edeyi, a devout Christian and community leader from Umuokogbuo Eluama in Isuikwuato, Abia State. Maggie, as she was fondly called, died on Wednesday morning, March 13, 2019, in Warri, Delta State, aged around 90 years. She is survived by five children, among them…
LAGOS MARH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African preacher, Alph Lukau is presently under attack for raising a dead man. His action may lead to several lawsuits after the self-declared prophet claimed to have resurrected a man at his church in Johannesburg, the BBC is reporting. A group of funeral directors in South Africa have threatened to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former secretary, Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi is dead. The football administrator passed on after failing to recover from an undisclosed illness. Tunde Samusudeen, public relations officer of Osun United Football Club, announced the death via a message sent to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday. Until his death, Ogunjobi was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has described the death of Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, as a national loss. Obi, in a statement issued on Friday night, shortly after the news of Shagari’s death was broken by the late president’s family, said that Shagari’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bello Shagari, his grandson, confirmed that he died at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Friday. “I regret announcing the death of my grandfather, H.E Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who died right now after brief illness at the National hospital, Abuja,” he tweeted. The deceased was president in the second republic, from 1979 to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has died at age 94. His death was announced by his family Friday night. The president’s health had been in decline in recent months. “George Herbert Walker Bush, World War II naval aviator, Texas oil pioneer, and 41st President of the…