LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise being conducted by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) was disrupted for hours in Lokoja on Tuesday when one of the applicants collapsed suddenly and died. The Kogi State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Olisegun Martins, who confirmed the incident said that the applicant, a male…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Efe Okedi, wife of late Raggae singer, has died. Okedi’s death, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, was similar to Kimono’s. On June 9, the dreadlocked musician, whose real name is Chux Ohai, had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while waiting to board a flight to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH NEWSRANGER- Emmanuel Samuel Nanle, Director of Press and Public Affairs to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State is dead. Nanle reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday in an Indian Hospital after battling colon cancer and enlargement of the large intestines. Punch quoted one of his relatives as saying, “Actually, he…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was a once-in-a-generation singer. She was the Queen of Soul, but she also ventured into — and mastered — virtually every style of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and blues. She passed away at her home in Detroit from pancreatic cancer, according to…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead. Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President of Ghana, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, died on Friday during his early morning exercise in Accra. Local media reports that the former number two man of the country under the John Mahama led National Democratic Congress collapsed at a gym at the Air Force base where he had gone to exercise….
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Kennis Ebirim, a family physician with the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, has been confirmed dead after watching Tuesday’s 2018 World Cup match between Nigeria and Argentina. Family members, colleagues and neighbours confirmed the death of Ebirim to journalists at his residence in Owerri. The deceased was reported to have slumped and…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Michael’s Jackson’s dad has died! Joe Jackson — the patriarch of the Jackson family — has died, TMZ reports. The elder Jackson died two days after the ninth anniversary of the demise of his megastar son, Michael, who died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. Family sources tell the…