LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six days after their abduction, students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State have been freed, the Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Mustapha Inuwa, said. Earlier, the terror group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility of the abduction and subsequently released a video that showed some of the boys believed to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroonian security operatives have arrested a former member of the parliament Blama Malla for alleged ties with the Boko Haram terrorist group, HumAngle reports. Malla is a member of the country’s ruling party – Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM). Multiple security sources told HumAngle that Blama Malla is being held in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Insurgents have attacked Tumur Town, a community in Niger Republic, which houses more than 40,000 refugees from Nigeria, Daily post reports. The attack on Sunday according to some refugees, who called their relatives in Maiduguri, was very bloody, leaving over 51 people dead and causing many damages of property, including animals. Most…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that abducted hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria six years ago, has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of students in north-western Katsina state last week. In an audio tape released on Tuesday, Abubakar Shekau said: “Our brothers were behind the abduction in Katsina.”…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has said Saturday onslaught on rice farmers by Boko Haram in Borno State showed that the war against insurgents requires more efforts to win. Tinubu stated this in a condolence letter to Governor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday titled, ‘Commiserating with Gov. Zulum, Borno People over Zabarmari…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-For several days, the killers lived peaceably among their future victims, sharing their dormitories and eating their food. Then, on Saturday afternoon, they took out their guns, rounded up the people like cattle and slaughtered them one by one. This was the nightmare recounted by survivors of a massacre that unfolded in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the killing the over 43 farmers in Zabarmari area of Borno state last weekend. In a new three minutes 37-second video released online, the sect members said they carried out the attack because the farmers arrested one of its members and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari has said that the clamor for the sacking of service chiefs is ‘out of place’. Shehu said this when he appeared on Arise TV news on Monday night, November 30. According to Shehu, the president has the prerogative to appoint or…