LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Inland Waterways Authority and Water Transport branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has been thrown into mourning as the much admired and hardworking General Secretary of this branch of the Union, Comrade Patrick Okodo passed on to join his ancestors. Okodo’s colleague who confirmed his death expressed deep…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Oyo State, Christopher Alao-Akala, is dead. Alao-Akala, who was born in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, on June 3, 1950, died at the age of 71. Details of his death remained sketchy as of the time of filing this report. But the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Ernest Shonekan who headed the Interim National Government that succeeded the junta of General Ibrahim Babangida, has died. Shonekan died in Lagos at the age of 85. Shonekan was the interim head of the Nigerian Government between August 26 and November 17 1993 when he was ousted in a coup led…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, is dead. He was the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention and a major challenger of MKO Abiola’s in the controversial June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. Family sources…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 75-year-old man, (name withheld) who arrived Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a flight operated by Delta Air from the US this morning has died at the airport. The man was found dead shortly after the aircraft touched down and taxied to the avio bridge from where he…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Founder of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, better known as Prophet TB Joshua, is dead. Joshua reportedly died on Saturday night in Lagos after concluding a programme at his church. The church and his family have not officially announced his death. He was 57. Plans were underway for his…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, told the Palm Beach Post. Further details were not released. He had…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tabaré Vázquez, an Uruguayan oncologist who rose from poverty to win two terms as the country’s first socialist president, died Dec. 6 at home in Montevideo, the capital. He was 80. Dr. Vázquez announced last year that he had lung cancer, a disease he had dedicated much of his life to fighting. His…