LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said that the $7 million bounty placed on the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, will not be given to members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province. The US made this known via a tweet by its State Department Rewards for Justice Program while…
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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Villagers have field day carting away famr products as Nigeria seized Boko Haram Leader’s farm in Sambisa forest. The Nigeria Army fight against the terrorist Boko Haram continues to gain momentum and it appears the Nigerian soldiers are now also getting the much needed equipments like special Tucano planes which further airplane…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohammed Adam, a teenage fighter, who is currently in custody of troops of 195 battalion of the Nigerian army, said Shekau got injured during an air bombardment on an insurgents’ camp in Tumbuktu, Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold in Borno state. In a video seen by TheCable, Adam was heard saying…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram Terrorist group has released a new video a few days after the military authorities in Nigeria declared him wanted. According to Shekau in the new video, he dared the military, declaring that he and his fighters can’t be arrested by the military and even if…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia has insisted that a Northern Governor is Boko Haram’s leader. Mailafia stated this on Wednesday, while speaking with journalists shortly after he was released by the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS detained him for questioning for over six hours…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian Army Commander, General Abdul Kalifa Ibrahim, has assured that the military has intensified effort to apprehend the dreaded Boko Haram leader, Shekau. “By the grace of Allah, we will be victorious,” he said. General Ibrahim spoke in an interview with the Voice of America (VOA), Hausa Service monitored by journalists…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram has released a fresh video on the occasion of the 2019 Christmas celebrations. The video release was confirmed by a popular and respected journalist, Ahmad Salkida on Wednesday, December 25. According to his Tweeter post, “Abubakar Shekau releases Christmas message in new…