LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria international Ifeanyichukwu Chiejine has died, the country’s football governing body confirmed on Thursday. According to the NFF, the former Super Falcons forward passed on at the age of 36 following a brief illness on Wednesday. Chiejine had featured for several clubs across Europe, USA before her final professional stint with…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanj, has died at the age of 62. His family confirmed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Oyebanji, passed on at National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning after protracted battle with heart failure. Mr Bukoye Oyebanji and Dr Steve…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, (FUTO) were found dead at at a hostel on Tuesday, after an alleged drug orgy. The fourth student, a female, is reportedly currently unconscious at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri. According to reports, the students were found on Tuesday at Sunshine Castle…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said Monday. The accident occurred in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana on Sunday evening, police said in a statement. “There were five people on board,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by paramedics to revive the life of a yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man who jumped into Lagos lagoon has failed. The man was reported to have jumped into Lagos lagoon in the early hours of Tuesday. It was learnt that the man was rescued by some fishermen and officials of the Lagos State…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, of the Police Academy Wudil, Kano and two other passengers lost their lives on Sunday in a car accident along the dilapidated Kano-Zaria expressway. The cadets, including a female cadet ASP Aisha Bello, were said to be on their way home after a semester break…
LAGOS JANUARY 26T (NEWSRANGERS)-The newly-redeployed Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Commerce and Industry, Deji Tinubu, is dead. Tinubu who is the nephew of APC leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was recently moved in a cabinet shake up by Ambode from Special Adviser on Sports to Commerce and Industry. He was before then the Director…