LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel formally declared war on Sunday and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack. At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in decades — and more than 400…
LAGOS AUGST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It comes hours after Russia confirmed that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a private yet which crashed to the ground north of Moscow, killing 10 people. Furious Wagner soldiers in Belarus have sent Vladimir Putin a chilling threat hours after their leader Pregozhin was reportedly killed in a horror…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A West African bloc mediator sent to meet Niger’s junta leaders following a July 26 coup says a peaceful way out of the crisis remains possible. Last week’s visit to Niger “has opened an avenue to start talking,” Abdulsalami Abubakar, a former Nigerian president, told reporters in the capital, Abuja. “Hopefully diplomacy…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali have warned against military intervention in their coup-hit neighbour, Niger. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that in a joint statement, the two countries, which are both ruled by military-backed governments, said that any military intervention in Niger would be tantamount to a declaration of war against them….
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 9, AIG Echeng Echeng, has charged Police personnel in Imo to neutralise IPOB/ESN elements enforcing the sit at home directive. Echeng gave the charge during a familiarisation tour of the Imo command in Owerri on Thursday. The AIG said the police would apply…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 80 Point of Sales (PoS) agents, suspected to be buying and selling money to members of the public with higher interest have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Ondo state. Vanguard gathered that the officials of the commission carried out the exercise…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb Wednesday killed 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said. There was no immediate word on whether the crash was an accident or a result of the war with Russia. No fighting has been reported recently in the Kyiv area. Interior Minister…