LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s influential pastor TB Joshua, who has died aged 57, was considered a pariah among the country’s mega-televangelists and struggled until his death to be accepted within their circles, despite amassing millions of followers across Africa. Ostracised by both the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-US actor Joe Lara, best known for playing Tarzan, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Tennessee. The 58-year-old is among seven people believed killed when a light aircraft crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna on Saturday. His dietician wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a weight-loss church,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said on Thursday. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) had…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sales and Distribution Manager of The Sun, Pastor Sylva Esajere, is dead. Pastor Esajere, who was wife of former Politics Editor, The Guardian, Mr. Akpo Esajere, died in the early hours of Friday. According to her family, Pastor Esajere, who served as a Pastor and choir leader of Amazing Grace Pentecostal…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy has struck the Badrus after their illustrious son, Kayode Badru died after involving in a fire accident at Celestial Church in Lagos. The Lagos socialite popularly called Lagos Big Boy was reported to have flown into Nigeria from Dubai to attend the graduation ceremony of some students he sponsored to Academy…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven youths were reported to have died in an auto-crash that happened in the early hours of yesterday along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. The Lagos Sector Commander of FRSC, Corps Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide said in a statement in Lagos that the auto crash, which occurred on the Lekki – Epe Expressway at Shapati…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a woman, Joy Owoyele, is in grief after she died during a 14-day fasting in the Isheri Olofin area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Owoyele had sought spiritual help regarding her matrimonial challenges at the Christ Apostolic Church, Ori-Oke Gbogunmi, aka Ajanpelenbe Mountain, located on Pipeline Road,…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Legal analyst and TV personality Midwin Charles has died, her family confirmed with a post on her Twitter account on Tuesday. She was 47. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart and the deepest sadness that we announce the untimely passing of our beloved Midwin Charles,” the post reads. “She was known…