LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as the “terror mastermind” of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago. It said it is seeking information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden, describing him as a leader of the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As controversy continues to surround the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, over alleged links to terrorist groups, the Presidency has come under severe criticism for backing the embattled senior government official. Pantami, in one of his old sermons that resurfaced recently, praises notorious terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten years after the foiled bombing of a US-bound flight from Amsterdam, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, the father of the underwear bomber, Farouk, has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time, describing it as the most trying of his life. Mutallab senior, who is 80 years old, said he initially…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said…