LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old hunter, Kwabena Bronya, 45, has accidentally been shot dead by a gun in possession of his elder brother Kwadjo Nkrumah, 36, while on their way to poach in Pamuruso Forest in the Ashanti Region. The deceased and the suspect were siblings and both lived at Asibe-Nkwanta near Nynahin in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country without notifying aides and allies as he feared Taliban militants had gained entry to the presidential palace and planned to execute him, The Washington Post reported. The Post on Sunday reported on the chaos that engulfed the Afghan government in Kabul as militants swept…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two explosions killed dozens of people, including at least 13 U.S. troops, ripping through the crowds outside Afghanistan’s main airport on Thursday, just hours after Western governments had warned of an imminent Islamic State attack and told their people to stay away from the airport. The attack, by at least two suicide…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWWSRANGERS)-Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate Saturday. The strike came amid what the White House called indications that IS planned to…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such a pact with Russia as far back as 2019, when he met with…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was later jailed for war crimes, died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal’s justice minister said. Habre contracted COVID-19 at a clinic in the capital Dakar where…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Indonesian social affairs minister Juliari Batubara has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over a multi-million dollar COVID-19 graft scandal, the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled on Monday. A judge said the former politician was found “convincingly guilty of corruption” after receiving 32.4 billion rupiah ($2.25 million) in kickbacks in relation…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Zambian self-proclaimed prophet died after his attempt to recreate Jesus’ resurrection backfired spectacularly. 22-year-old Pastor James Sakara died after he asked his followers to bury him alive for three days so that he could miraculously resurrect. Sakara who was a pastor at the Zion Church in the Zambian town of Chidiza…