LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state at the weekend, two military officers said on Monday. The army later issued an official statement confirming there had been hours of intense battles on Sunday that also…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists have killed seven people on Christmas Eve in a raid on a Christian village near the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, local militia and residents told AFP Wednesday. Dozens of fighters driving trucks and motorcycles stormed into Kwarangulum late Tuesday, shooting fleeing residents and burning homes…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, has thown his weight behind former President Olusegun Obasanjo statement on ‘Fulanisation’ of Nigeria, saying he was the kind of leader Nigeria needs. Oyegun told New Telegraph that Obasanjo’s comment on “Islamisation and Fulanisation” might have been dramatized,…