LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric identified as Pastor Aimola John has slumped and died shortly after joining Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Aimola was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital he was rushed to. He had left the APC in 2015 alongside Pastor Ize-Iyamu and was among former…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A policeman who was controlling the surging crowd at Lagos Island inferno was reported to have perished in the fire. The front section of the six-storey building gutted by fire on Tuesday in Lagos Island has collapsed, killing a policeman at the scene, reports the News Agency of Nigeria. NAN reports…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York has launched a blistering indictment of oil companies operating in the Niger Delta calling their actions “nothing less than environmental genocide”. The Archbishop chairs the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission is working alongside industry and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 55 elephants have starved to death in the past two months in Zimbabwe’s biggest national park as a serious drought forces animals to stray into nearby communities in search of food and water, authorities said on Monday. “The problem is real, the situation is dire,” said National Parks and Wildlife…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A male passenger identified as Jude Oladapo slumped and died on Saturday while undergoing boarding procedures at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. Spokesperson for the MMIA Police Command, Lagos, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. Mr Alabi said that the 44-year-old was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Professor Emmanuel C. Edozien, OFR, an accomplished economist, Professor, businessman and boardroom guru is dead. The former Economic Adviser to former President, Shehu Shagari, died Saturday afternoon inside his Ikoyi residence after a brief ailment, sources close to the family told THEWILL. Emmanuel, 82, a sibling of the Asagba of Asaba, Obi…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British drummer, Ginger Baker, renown for his collaboration with Fela Kuti and others, has died at the age of 80. Baker’s Facebook page said he “passed away peacefully” on Sunday morning. His family had previously announced that he was critically ill and asked fans to “please keep him in your prayers”. Baker…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Robert Mugabe, the founding father of Zimbabwe who ruled the country with an iron fist for more than three decades, has died, according to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. He was 95. Rumors had swirled around the health of the ex-president, who spent months in a hospital in Singapore earlier this year. Details of…