LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A staff of Fidelity Bank, Emmanuel Ebere, slumped yesterday at the Awolowo, Ikoyi branch in Lagos. Ebere, who was attached to the Information and Communication Technology unit, was rushed to the Military hospital, Ikoyi, where doctors confirmed him dead. This is just as one of the workers hired by Everlift Company was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Grant Wahl, a prominent U.S. soccer journalist with previous experience working for CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated, died in Qatar on Friday, according to his wife and U.S. Soccer. Wahl, who was 48, had been in Qatar working as an independent journalist through his Substack “Fútbol with Grant Wahl.” Yahoo Sports soccer…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Flight attendant, Yasser Saleh, died of a heart attack while working on a flight from Bahrain to Paris Charles de Gaulle. Dead On Arrival The Gulf Air flight attendant was confirmed dead on arrival at the hospital on Tuesday morning. Saleh was part of the cabin crew on flight GF 19 which…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tiantian Kullander, the influential young founder of cryptocurrency company Amber Group, died suddenly in his sleep on Nov. 23, the company confirmed. The group had just received a $3 billion valuation earlier this year, and was in the process of raising another $100 million—a meteoric success in which he played an integral…
00 LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Sunday at the University of Lagos, after a 100 level student of the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Science, Simon Adokwu, slumped and died while playing football on the premises of the school in Akoka, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Adokwu, after attending church service,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale, lawmaker representing Mushin Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly, is dead. Known as Omititi in political circles, Olawale was among the politicians, who stormed Jos, Plateau State capital, for the kick-off of the campaign of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man identified as Obiefuna Tochukwu Kenneth has reportedly died after he slumped at an airport. Details of the incident including name of the airport and country, are still sketchy at the time of filing this report. However, one Chimuanya Desmond who confirmed the incident in a Facebook post on Saturday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (MEWSRANGERS)-An Iranian man, Amou Haji, nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world” for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported on Tuesday. Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century and was single, died on Sunday in the village of…