LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senate President, Joseph Wayas, has died in a London hospital, the Cross River State Government announced on Thursday. The Second Republic Senate President who had been receiving medical attention for some time passed away at the age of 80. Reacting, Governor Ben Ayade said Dr Wayas who died on November 30,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Nigerian Senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko, is dead. DAILY POST learnt that the former lawmaker who represented the Ekiti South constituency between 1999 and 2003, died on Saturday after he collapsed in his office in Abuja. Aluko who in 2018 contested the governorship ticket on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. “General Colin L….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Davido’s official photographer Fortunate Umunname Peter aka Fortune is dead. He died three months after the hit maker’s close friend and associate, Habeeb Ademola Uthman aka as Obama DMW passed on. Davido had also lost his bodyguard of six years, Ogbeide Tijani Olamilekan (Teejay) in 2020. In 2017, Davido lost two friends…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Professor Abass Olajire is dead. The don died few minutes after he slumped. Our correspondent gathered that Olajire slumped during a Jummat service at a mosque in Ogbomoso. It was gathered that the don slumped at Ansarudeen Mosque at Oke Ado area…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army. Bouteflika, a veteran of Algeria’s war for independence, had ruled the North African country for two decades before his resignation in April…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Ivory Coast Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny died in a Paris hospital on Friday after contracting Covid-19, close aides said. Banny, 78, who was in office from 2005-2007, was being treated at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine after contracting the disease in Ivory Coast. “He changed my…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-soccer player in France, has died after being in a coma for 39 years. He was 73. On Monday, Adams’ former clubs — Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Nice — confirmed his death in various statements. “This morning, we learned about the death of Jean-Pierre Adams. He played…