LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven people were killed Thursday in a Boko Haram gun attack in Nigeria’s Borno state, a local official said. Kachallah Usma, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN the organization killed seven people and kidnapped another seven, including a pastor in the majority-Christian village of Pemi. “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 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 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Cross River State has confirmed the murder of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar. Edum before his murder was the Borno State Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). Speaking with Channels Television in Calabar, the police spokesperson,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday, admitted that the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram exists in many parts of the state and are threat to over six million people in the state. The governor said the presence of the deadly sect still holding on Sambisa forest and the Lake…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International has revealed that ten women working on Kwashabe rice farm are missing after a fresh attack by Boko Haram terrorist group in Borno. Boko Haram had beheaded 43 farmers in Zabarmari LGA, Borno on Saturday. AI revealed that of the 43 farmers slaughtered by the terrorist group, 16 were Internally…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The new Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season has been confirmed to kick off on December 6, 2020, with the fixtures, also made available. Still, in the preparatory mood for the 2020/2021 season, the Sai Masu Gida side were given terrible news after one of their youngsters, Ibrahim Hassan was attacked by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed his heartfelt sympathy to Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on the recent Boko Haram attack on his convoy that left some security aides dead, with a call to the Federal Government to strengthen…