LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)- At least five people were killed and six others injured in a night-time Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, residents told AFP on Saturday. A male suicide bomber detonated his explosives among a group of residents sleeping in the open in Tungushe village in Borno…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has opposed reported moves by the Federal Government directing the Nigerian Army and Police to recruit some former members of Boko Haram terrorists who recently underwent deradicalisation programme. The President of CAN, Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said on Tuesday that if it is true, it is…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Boko Haram terrorists in a flagrant show of defiance have again openly celebrated this Year’s Eid-el-Fitr in Sambisa Forest. The five minute, 17 second video footage seen by a News Agency of Nigeria correspondent in Maiduguri, Borno State, shows the terrorists and their families dressed in festival attires, performing salat after…
LAGOS JUNE 8H (NEWSRANGERS)-The mother of one of the missing Chibok girls sent a heartfelt plea Friday on her daughter’s 20th birthday: “Please wish her a happy birthday and remember her in your prayers.” Esther Yakubu told CNN she wants the world to remember that her daughter Dorcas was one of the 276 schoolgirls that…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. William Stuart Symington, Thursday, announced an additional donation of $102m in humanitarian assistance to help address shelter, health and food security needs of Nigerians still struggling with the effects of the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast region of the country. Symington announced the donation at…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Shortly after Halima* arrived at a displacement camp in northeast Nigeria, a soldier approached her offering chicken and yams. Halima recognised him as one of the men who had beaten her husband and taken him into detention. For days, she had barely eaten so she accepted the food out of desperation. When…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A pair of explosions killed at least 24 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, with many of the victims caught in the second blast while trying to flee, police said Tuesday. The attack in Mubi town came a day after President Muhammadu Buhari met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A breakaway Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State in West Africa has seized some towns in Borno and Yobe states, providing protection to Muslim residents and collecting taxes from them, Reuters reports. The Federal Government and the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have, however, described the report as a tissue of lies….