LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Straddling a caravan route to the Sahara, the city of Sokoto has since ancient times been a major trading hub in Nigeria’s extreme northwest savannah. But a surge in attacks and mass school kidnappings by criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, has dealt the region a terrible blow, making farming and trading…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Guinea’s junta said on Monday its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on the length of transition to elections with an 81-member Transitional National Council (TNC). Earlier this month the leader of the Sept. 5 coup, Mamady Doumbouya, shrugged off asset…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 30 soldiers have been killed by the Boko Haram insurgents after the soldiers were ambushed between Marte- Dikwa council areas of Borno State. The incident according to Sources available to the Pointblanknews.com took place when the insurgents fired Rocket Launchers at military trucks which culminated into sporadic shootings, killing troops…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anthony Joshua has spoken for the first time after losing his world titles with his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night. Joshua did not give an interview in the ring post-fight but has now broken his silence on social media after giving up his WBA, WBO and IBF belts. The Briton,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past. Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Those who have known Oleksandr Usyk for a long time would quickly tell you that he’s a fun-loving, humorous guy more than anything else. Anyone who knows him likes him. Saturday, he proved to the uninitiated that he’s also one of the great boxers in the world. The former undisputed cruiserweight champion…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States prosecutors handling the case of Abba Kyari and co-conspirators in the multimillion-dollar fraud masterminded by Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas have accused the disgraced police office of being at large. Officials said they would proceed with the trial of three other co-conspirators in the international wire fraud and money laundering case…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command lost one of its finest officers during a raid on criminal hideouts in Ajao Estate, Lagos State yesterday 23rd September, 2021. The incident happened when tactical teams of the Command comprising men drawn from RRS, Taskforce, Ajao Estate Division and other divisions were carrying out raid of…
