LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle-aged man, Aso Orji, of Amosu Eddah, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, slumped and died on Sunday during church service. He was confirmed dead at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. Orji, who is the choir director of Presbyterian Church, Kpirikpiri, Abakaliki, was said to have…
LAGOS FENRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has lost his uncle, Elder Omieworio Afeni and he said he is pained by his demise. He died at the age of 87 years. A statement issued by Jonathan’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze on Tuesday, said Elder Afeni, who died in Yenagoa at the weekend after a…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Defender with Nasarawa United FC, Chieme Martins slumped and died on the field during a football match. The sad incident occurred on Sunday, 8th March during a match between his team and Katsina United in Lafia, Nasarawa state. Martins was rushed to a hospital after he was attended to by medics…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gambia’s Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof has died of illness in India, President Adama Barrow said on Tuesday. Joof, 65, was appointed vice president of the West African country in 2022. He had previously served as education minister. Barrow said on Twitter that Joof had died “after a short illness” without…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, popularly known as Papa Ajasco, is dead. His death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday. He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mojeed Salami, Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Seme Police Division, Lagos State Police command is dead. SP Salami reportedly collapsed in his office on Tuesday, January 10 and was confirmed dead at the hospital where he was rushed to. Vanguard learned that the deceased had complained of headache on the said day and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A foremost Lagos Lawyer, Dr. Khrushchev Ekwueme, has died after slumping during his legal firm’s end-of-year party. The Enugu State-born lawyer, 56, was a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice of Olaniwun Ajayi LP. Though the tragic incident happened on December 21, 2022, it has been unreported by the serious online outfits…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWRANGERS)-Benedict XVI, the former pope who spent years in the Vatican upholding conservative Catholic teaching but who upended centuries of tradition by resigning as pontiff, died Saturday, the Vatican announced. He was 95. The German-born Benedict lived out his final years in a converted monastery at the Vatican, giving rise to the…