LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people in their early 30s aboard a small airplane died when the Cessna crashed into a home in Minnesota late Saturday. Federal and local authorities in Minnesota are investigating the scene in Hermantown, which is located just west of Duluth and about 150 miles north of Minneapolis. Officials described the victims…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kenyan lawyer charged at the International Criminal Court with bribing witnesses in the collapsed trial of President William Ruto six years ago has died, Kenyan media reported on Tuesday. Citizen Television and Standard Newspapers reported that Paul Gicheru had been found dead at his home in Nairobi’s Karen area, citing information…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Noor Shah Mohammad was serving as a Taliban soldier hundreds of miles from home when disaster struck early on Wednesday morning. A powerful earthquake reduced much of his village to rubble, killing residents as they slept including his wife, father, two sisters and a brother. When he heard the news, he said…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at his house and trailed him to a hospital where he was receiving…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Property worth millions of Naira have been destroyed in an inferno that razed the House of Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, on Sunday. The house is situated in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The Osun State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident on Monday. In…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Argentina raided the home and offices of Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona’s personal doctor, on Sunday as part of an investigation into the soccer legend’s death. Maradona, 60, died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires-area home on Nov. 25, just weeks after undergoing surgery to relieve bleeding on his…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed security operatives have surrounded the home of former managing director of the NDDC, Joy Nunieh, in Port Harcourt. Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike is reportedly moving to intervene in the stand-off. It was gathered that the former NDDC boss is due to appear before a House of Representatives Committee in…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead inside his official residence on Sundaymorning, a spokeswoman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN. At this stage, the 57-year-old’s death is not being treated as suspicious. Police are outside the ambassador’s residence in Herzliya — to the north of Tel Aviv…