LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of stowaways appear to have fallen to a horrific death from an aircraft leaving Kabul. Footage showed countless people jumping aboard the outside of a US Air Force plane seemingly trying to take off from a runway in the Afghan capital. In one footage, as an Apache helicopter attempts to…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has petitioned the United States government, demanding fairness from the Joe Biden-led administration in the matter involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. The group, which expressed worry over the trajectory around Kyari’s case, also asked the US…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm. Saturday’s earthquake left at least 2,800 injured in the Caribbean island nation, with thousands more displaced from…
Zambia’s veteran opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote. Hichilema was declared president–elect by Esau Chulu, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia, early Monday after results for 155 of the country’s 156 constituencies were announced. Hichilema, a 59-year old businessman contesting the…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Taliban fighters moved Sunday into Afghanistan’s capital city, the nation’s leader fled. President Ashraf Ghani flew from Kabul to an unknown destination. At least one news report said he traveled to Uzbekistan. Later Sunday, Ghani posted an explanation for his exit, saying if he stayed, more Afghans would die and “bloodshed”…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban captured another three provincial capitals in Afghanistan on Friday, completing their sweep of the country’s south in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. The latest significant blow was the loss of the capital of Helmand…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian High Commission in London in the United Kingdom has been shut after officials tested positive for COVID-19. Sources furnished THEWILL exclusively with the letter informing of the closure, which will last 10 days beginning from Thursday, when the strains of the deadly disease were detected in the Diplomats. Their infection…