LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the sudden death of 26-year-old lawyer Sarah Araba Tettey, who reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while celebrating Ghana’s victory over Panama on Wednesday. Tettey, an alumna of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), was called to the…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Finance and Administration, Lagos State Police Command, DCP Khan Salihu, is dead. The cause of his death was unknown as at the time of filing this report. However, sources at the Command Headquarters said he had complained of feeling tired after returning from the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of mourners paid an emotional tribute on Thursday to Kenya’s world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, ahead of his funeral in the nation’s athletics heartland. Kiptum, 24, was killed on February 11 in a road accident near the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, leaving Kenya and the world of athletics reeling. On…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, and a political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi have paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, in Ibadan. The former Anambra State governor revealed this via his X handle (formerly Twitter) on…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalists under the aegis of Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP) mourn the death of the President of Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) Mr. Ray Ugochukwu. Ray Ugochukwu died on Thursday after a brief illness. CONMEP in a statement signed by its President, Alhaji. Tunde Umar-Daniah said, “We mourn the…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Southwest People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chairman, Hon. Soji Adagunodo is dead. Adagunodo was once A Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, it was gathered, died on to the great beyond on Monday after a brief sickness in the United States of America. Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke while reaching…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Brazilian barber who cut Pele’s hair for more than 60 years is lamenting the loss of both a customer and a close friend. Joao Araujo, whose nickname is Didi, has his shop not far from the stadium where the football legend once played for the Santos team. On Monday and Tuesday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over the death of Chief Sylvester Nwobu-Alor, which he described as devastating. Obi was reacting to Chief Nwobu-Alor’s death over which he requested one minute silence when he got the news during his consultations in faraway United Kingdom. He described…