LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at the age of 92, his office said. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, came to power in 2014, three years after the Arab Spring uprising toppled longtime despot Zine…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Immigration Department of Malaysia, on Friday, confirmed that a Nigerian PhD student at the Limkokwing University, Thomas Orhions Ewansiha, had died in their custody. Ewansiha, according to the Director General of the agency, Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud was detained during a raid on July 4 at 10.45 p.m. at the Desa…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013 after one year in office, has collapsed in a courtroom and died, officials say. A top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi had just spoken from a cage at a hearing on charges of espionage. State TV said…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Arsenal, Real Madrid and Spain star Jose Antonio Reyes has been killed in a car crash, his hometown club Sevilla said on Saturday. He was 35. Reyes, who shot to fame at Sevilla before a switch to Arsenal, followed by spells at Real and Atletico Madrid, was on the books with…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A newly-born baby from a family of Nigerian migrants in Italy has died following a botched home circumcision, the second such incident in little over a week, news reports said on Wednesday. According to the ANSA news agency, the baby, only a few weeks old, was found dead at home in Genoa,…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Senior Secondary Student and the Head Prefect of Ijo Mimo High School in Akure, Ondo State, Temitayo Oluwole, died at the weekend after falling from a mango tree within the school compound. Oluwole was reported to have attended a tutorial class organised by the school for Senior Students on Saturday when…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Osaretin Igbinedion, second son of the ex-Edo governor, Lucky Igbinedion, and a nephew have been reported dead in a ghastly auto accident in America. Osaretin, according to a family source, was said to have died in the early hours of yesterday in the accident. The source also urged Nigerians to pray…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Esan born politician, Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih is dead. He died Sunday evening at the Cedar Crest Hospital, Abuja where he has been receiving treatment for undisclosed ailment. He was born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi. In 1951 he joined the Nigeria police force in Benin City. Working at home, he obtained secondary…
