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 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 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ugandan athlete who fled during pre-Olympics training in western Japan last week has been found and is being interviewed by police, officials said Tuesday. Mie prefectural police in central Japan said 20-year-old weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was in the Yokkaichi city, 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of his host town in western…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, on Friday told the Federal High Court, Abuja that his leg would have been amputated if he did not travel to Niger Republic for medicare. Maina offered the explanation in his affidavit to support the bail application filed before Justice Okon Abang. He…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deep in the tropical forest in southern Nigeria, an evangelical pastor runs a sprawling camp billed as a refuge for thousands of children who fled the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency in the north. Solomon Folorunsho, known as Pastor Solomon, says he is on a self-proclaimed mission to help humanity, creating the International…