LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has revealed that terrorist group, Boko Haram, wanted him to ditch his Christian faith and accept Islam while he was president. The 61-year-old made this disclosure in his new book, titled “My Transition Hours”, which he launched on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. He said the group used Islam…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-NAN learnt that Federal Government pronouncement on the latest victims of Boko Haram insurgency was being delayed because families of the victims were being identified and contacted. “The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs. “And the families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indications emerged yesterday that the attack on troops by Boko Haram insurgents at Metele village, Guzamala Local Government Area, Borno State, which claimed many lives on Sunday, was possible because the attackers disguised as friendly soldiers. A soldier, who escaped the attack by a whisker, said an advanced team of the insurgents…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-Boko Haram has killed 44 soldiers and nine farmers in three days of attacks on some villages in Borno State, AFP has reported. According to the report, which quoted security sources, the Islamic State West Africa Province, a Boko Haram splinter group, killed at least 44 soldiers in attacks on three military…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has raised alarm over the emergence of a new terrorist group, identified as Jama’Atu Nus’Ratul-Islami Wal-Muslimina, in the northeast region. This was disclosed in an official statement released by the Army on Saturday, November 17, 2018. The Army said the group’s leader has already been identified as a certain…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)– At least 12 civilians were killed in multiple Boko Haram jihadist attacks targeting two villages and a camp for those displaced by the bloody conflict in northeastern Nigeria, civilian militia and residents told AFP Thursday. Jihadists in seven trucks late on Wednesday attacked Bulaburin and Kofa villages as well as a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over seven months after the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram insurgents, Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, mother of the kidnapped schoolgirl, has filed an action at the Federal High Court in Lagos, claiming N500m damages. Recall that Leah Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram insurgents have taken control of Damasak, a town in Mobbar Local Government Area, some 186km away from Maiduguri, SaharaReporters can report. The development comes one day after Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), visited the town to address the 134 battalion. Military sources told SaharaReporters that after the COAS’s…