By Paul Carsten LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) – When Islamic State gunmen stormed the northeast Nigerian town of Magumeri on the night of August 21, they had free rein. Nigerian soldiers had left the town earlier that month under a new strategy of withdrawing to “super camps” that can be more easily defended against insurgents…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigeria’s multiple security problems have created a crisis that requires urgent attention and could lead to instability in other African countries if it is not addressed, a United Nations rapporteur said on Monday. Security forces in Africa’s most populous country are trying to tackle a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast,…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Borno state have revealed that they have lost confidence in the military over the lingering Boko Haram crisis saying Boko Haram now attacks without any counter measure. In an open letter signed by Hassan Boguma, a traditional ruler, the residents accused the military of not doing enough saying the present…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara, has donated some parts of the enclave of the Boko Haram, Sambisa forest, for the controversial Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) programme. The governor also mobilised the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Agro Rangers and hunters to secure the large expanse of the forest and…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Friday released the photographs of the graves of Lance Corporal Adah Tamuno named in a Wall Street Journal report and those of other soldiers buried in Maimalari Military Cemetery in Maiduguri, Borno State, in November 2018. The army insisted that it did not bury any soldiers without the…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Nigerian military in collaboration with armed forces of neighbouring countries have made tremendous progress in the war against insurgency since the inception of his administration. Speaking Friday at the graduation ceremony of Course 27 at the National Defence College in Abuja, President Buhari said: “This…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Grace Taku, the aid worker kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists on July 18, has claimed that Leah Sharibu alongside one Alice has been killed by the insurgents because of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s inability to “do something”. Leah Sharibu was among the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from Yobe State by the…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ohakwe Egegus Ikechukwu, a Captain of the Nigerian Army (NA 15045) died in auto-crash and not killed by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno as reported in some media network. Capt. Ikechukwu, an indigene of Imo State, was reported by some online media, to have been killed in a recent attack launched by…