LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against “police injustice”, his family said. Tunisian football player Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns and was taken to the specialist burns hospital in Tunis, but doctors were unable to save his life, his brother…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Nuhu Clark, a member-elect for Chibok constituency in the Borno House of Assembly, is dead. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased died in India on Monday, while undergoing treatment. Babakura Abbajatau, The state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, confirmed the development in an interview with…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola has died. Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, died at 89. It was gathered that the respected legal icon, who founded Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has announced the passing on to eternal glory of his first wife, Mrs Ifeoma Kalu, who died at the age of 61. In a post on his official social media page, signed by him, the former governor and Chief Whip of the Senate…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oladipo Diya, retired general and former second-in-command to Gen Sani Abacha, has died at the age of 79. Oyesinmilola Diya, in a statement signed on behalf of the family, said Diya died in the early hours of Sunday. “On behalf of the entire Diya family home and abroad; We announce the passing…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger said to be a Nigerian national identified as Abdullah died mid-flight on a Doha-bound IndiGo flight forcing it to make an emergency landing at the Karachi International Airport. The Airport Medical Staff at the Jinnah International Airport declared the Nigerian passenger dead upon arrival. The pilot of flight 6E-1736 requested…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)The Afegbua family announced the death of Senator Franca Afegbua in a statement issued on Sunday. “The Afegbua family of Edo State has confirmed the demise of the first woman senator in Nigeria, Senator Franca Afegbua, whose sad event occurred this morning, Sunday, March 12, 2023. She combined beauty and brain during…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The South African rapper Costa Titch died on stage while performing, police said Sunday, as they opened an investigation in the circumstances of the 28-year-old’s sudden death. The artist “collapsed while he was performing” on Saturday evening at the Ultra South Africa concert in the Johannesburg suburb of Nasrec, police told AFP….