LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr. Yusuf Kofar-Mata, on Wednesday, lost three of his family members to an early morning fire outbreak that gutted his residence at Kofar-Mata quarters in Kano metropolis. The incident occurred early Wednesday while members of the family were said to be asleep. However, the commissioner…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai groom and former Paralympic athlete went on a drunken shooting rampage at his own wedding, killing his bride and three guests before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Chaturong Suksuk, 29, an ex-soldier, married 44-year-old Kanchana Pachunthuek in the Wang Nam Khieo district in northeast Thailand Saturday. At the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The details of the young Nigerian lady who died aboard an Egypt Air flight on her way to London, United Kingdom, have emerged. Naija News reports that the lady, identified as Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, left Nigeria for London aboard Egypt Air MS 876 flight to Cairo on Monday through the Murtala Muhammad…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A student of Physics in the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) in Kogi State, identified simply as Williams, was reportedly stabbed to death on Saturday by an SS3 student for allegedly toasting the secondary student’s elder sister. City & Crime reports that before the incident in the late Williams’ father’s compound at the…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has announced the death of its Provost Marshal, Maj.-Gen. Hassan Ahmed, who was killed by gunmen on Thursday. The assailants kidnapped his sister, Safina Ahmed (initially mistaken for the wife). The death was announced in a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Friday in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Ekanem Idongesit has reportedly committed suicide after investing his sister’s 53 million naira in the troubled MBA Trading and capital investment. According to Standard Observers, the sister who lives outside the country sent him the money for land and housing projects in Uyo, but Idongesit was reported to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers of Okechukwu Nnodim, a correspondent with The Punch have demanded the sum of N10m as ransom to secure his release. The kidnappers, according to sources closed to the family contacted Nnodim’s sister in Lagos on the telephone. The assailants had stormed his residence around Arab road area, Kubwa, Abuja, where they…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African Fredie Blom celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday unfazed by the coronavirus crisis, over 100 years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed his sister. “I have lived this long because of God’s grace,” said Blom, possibly one of the oldest men in the world. Lighting a cigarette, he recalled the…