LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents are fleeing Michika and Madagali areas after Boko Haram insurgents razed several villages, and killed scores of people. Hundreds of villagers from the affected villages as well as neighbouring ones are currently fleeing their homes to Gulak, Mubi and other towns. Boko Haram reportedly destroyed property in Kuda-Kaya village in a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, has bombed a Mosque in Maiduguri, killing eleven persons. The commissioner of police in the state, Damian Chukwu, who confirmed the incident, said it happened around 5:40am. He said two suicide bombers, accompanied by a gunman, infiltrated the mosque located at Kushari village behind old CBN…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWRANGERS)-More than 300 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) protested in Maiduguri on Friday over the replacement of their names as ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday. They protested in front of the Old Maiduguri Police…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has warned of an increased threat by Book Haram to carry out terrorist attacks in Nigeria especially as the general elections approach. In a Security Alert issued on Friday, Jan. 18, via its website, in Nigeria, the US noted that “there is an increase in ISIS propaganda videos specifically…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Molai, a village four kilometres off Maiduguri, Borno State capital, are currently on the run following a heavy gunfire between soldiers and Boko Haram fighters. A resident told TheCable that the Army has mobilised troops to the area to repel the fighters who struck yesterday. Molai is the only village…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists have killed three soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state near Lake Chad, military and civilian sources said. Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) driving in several trucks attacked the base in Cross-Kauwa village on Tuesday and engaged troops in an…
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 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…
