LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS0-A faction of the Boko Haram group, identified as Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, has released a video showing the condition of the 416 abducted victims in Ngoshe, a community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, assuring all that they are healthy and have not been subjected to torture or…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia, and jihadist sources told AFP Monday. Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group broke out in Dogon Chiku on the shores…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram terrorists have demanded a ransom of $500,000 for the release of the wife, police orderly, and driver of Justice Haruna Mshelia, a High Court judge in Borno State. A family source told Daily Trust that the terrorists rejected an initial offer of $50,000, insisting on the full $500,000 before releasing…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Yuki Gambaryan, the wife of the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, hass told the US Parliament that the Nigerian Government kept his husband, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison together with Boko Haram terrorists and bandits. Yuki, represented by her congressman, Rich McCormick, spoke at Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the convoy of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along Maiduguri-Dramaturu Road, killing two policemen and injuring two others. The attack took place on Saturday after the governor attended the 24th convocation of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. According to an eyewitness,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack by the jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria, police say. The mourners died after their vehicle drove over an explosive device planted by the insurgents in Yobe state. On Monday, the militants shot dead 17…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 20 villagers have been killed when a motorcycle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe State on Tuesday evening. The bomb went off at about 6:30pm in Goni Mittiri village under Gumsa town in Gaidam local government area of the State, eyewitnesses…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama says he has received an exclusive letter written by ISWAP group to the Boko Haram faction of Abubakar Shekau, challenging them to a fight. Zagazola claimed ISWAP accused the Boko Haram group of misleading the people, spreading falsehood, withholding the truths,…
