LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Boko Haram terror group has killed no fewer than 2,000 teachers, displaced 19,000 others and destroyed 1,400 schools during its deadly campaign northeast of Nigeria. This emerged amid outrage by the international community after the Islamic radicals kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls during an attack on the Bursari Government Girls Science…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has admitted that Boko Haram has not been defeated completely. This admission is contrary to earlier information by the Presidency that the Fedral Government has won the battle against the Islamic sect. Recall that the Nigerian military recently claimed that the sect had been completely defeated. Special Adviser to the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Dapchi secondary school in Yobe state have released the names of 105 girls missing by Saturday. The parents said they were the only source of credible data, dismissing figures provided by the state government as false. The parents, who have created a group to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on February 19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Advisor, British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT) in Nigeria, Major Ian Robertson, while condemning the attack and abduction of scores of students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Dapchi in Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, yesterday, pledged the willingness of the British military to assist in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Yobe state Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, has faulted the claim by the Nigerian Army that it rescued some of the girls of the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe state, who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday. It would be recalled that on Wednesday night, Abdullahi Bego, Spokesman to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Faiza Mohammed, one of the girls who escaped Boko Haram attack, at Government Girls’ Science and Technical College Dapchi says she will not go back to school except the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai becomes the gateman of the school. Faiza speaking to newsmen, stressed the need for authorities…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Heavy celebration in Gaidam town as residents defied 9:00pm curfew hour to welcome the rescued schoolgirls. In anticipaton of the arrival of the Yobe school girls children, men, women including house wives lined up on the Maine-Sorroa Street where they received the schoolgirls amidst cheers. The children rallying on bicycles were chanting a…