LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has passed on. He was 83 years old. The top Yoruba monarch died in the late hours of Friday, according to palace officials. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, The PUNCH was told. The late Alaafin’s first son, Prince…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS0-There was palpable tension at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, as a passenger, suspected to have suffered high blood pressure, died on Wednesday morning, after doctors failed to respond. The passenger was at the boarding gate area waiting for flight when she collapsed and all efforts to assist her by other…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS0-An Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration in the Bayelsa State Police Command, ACP Emmanuel Idowu Asufi, slumped and died while performing official duty on Tuesday. ACP Asufi was said to have collapsed and died at the Police headquarters in Ovom community, Yenagoa, on Tuesday afternoon. The sudden death of…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death of a Nigerian man, Peter Albert, was a tragic turn of fate, The Nation reports. The 20-year-old suspected internet fraudster had longed for the good things of life but lacked the means to acquire them. To achieve his desires, he sought the counsel of one of his friends, an 18-year-old…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Damilola Olakanmi, a Nigerian law student based in East London, The United Kingdom, has died after eating the cannabis sweet she bought via a messaging app on her phone. The UK Evening Standard reported that Olakanmi, 23, immediately fell ill after taking the sweet on March 29 and had to be rushed…
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prince Emeka Obasi, the publisher of Hallmark Newspaper, is dead. According to a statement by the deceased’s family, Obasi died on Tuesday at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos. The publisher had been battling a medical condition over the past few years.The statement read: “The family of Prince Emeka Obasi announces the passing …
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Super Eagles player, Justice Christopher, is dead. The former midfielder reportedly slumped in his hotel in Gwolshe, off Tudunwada Ring Road, Jos, Plateau State, on Wednesday. The deceased had reportedly been battling high blood pressure. He was, however, full of life and showed no sign of health challenge when he…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joseph Egbunike, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), has reportedly died. Egbunike, who recently headed the police internal panel probing the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, was said to have slumped and died inside his office at the Louis Edet…