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…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Australian police on Monday expressed disappointment at the Sydney branch of Christ Embassy Church for flouting the city’s COVID-19 lockdown by holding a service for 60 people in a pandemic hotspot. The church is part of Christ Embassy, an international religious group headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, which has a record of spreading…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-Many times on this page, I write lies. Not today. This one is as painfully real as watching Kadaga take office as deputy to Nabbanja. I had been picked as one of the three journalists to cover the asylum of Afghan refugees. The Uganda Airlines plane touched down at Hamid Karzai International…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three human heads have reportedly been found in the house of a Ghana third-tier footballer Richard Gyamfi affectionately known as “Fire man” in Abesim , a suburb of Sunyani in the Bono region. Investigations by SPORTSWorldGhana.com show that Richard Gyamfi is a player of Division Two side Kumapem football club in Sunyani…