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 JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has signed into law a bill prescribing death by hanging for cattle rustlers, bandits, kidnappers and their informants. The House of Assembly passed the bill on July 1, 2021. Bello said the Kidnapping and Cattle Rustling Special Provisions Law of 2016 was amended to provide for…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nemesis has caught up with no fewer than 15 armed bandits in Niger state as the boat conveying them capsized midway into the about three hour journey at river Shiroro in Shiroro local government area of the state. The mishap occurred on Wednesday last week when the bandits were said to be…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant woman and two other men have been confirmed dead in a multiple accidents that happened around the Danco axis on the Lagos-Ibadan Highway. The spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta. Akinbiyi explained…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than ten persons of the same family have died after consuming suspected herbal concoction in Kwara state. The incident was said to have happened on June 16. The deceased persons were of the Fulani camp in Biogberu, Gwanara, Baruten Local Government Area. Baruteen is one of the farthest LGAs in…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s influential pastor TB Joshua, who has died aged 57, was considered a pariah among the country’s mega-televangelists and struggled until his death to be accepted within their circles, despite amassing millions of followers across Africa. Ostracised by both the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-US actor Joe Lara, best known for playing Tarzan, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Tennessee. The 58-year-old is among seven people believed killed when a light aircraft crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna on Saturday. His dietician wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a weight-loss church,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said on Thursday. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) had…