LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Blasts have killed at least 20 people in northeast Nigeria, police said, while residents said the toll was even higher in the largest attack for weeks in a region blighted by the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency. In an emailed statement issued on Sunday, the police said 20 people had been killed…
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….
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has responded to a statement by former Minister of Information, Edwin Clark seeking state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. Edwin Clark on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the three states in view of the…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. He said the call was in view of the persistent terrorists’ attacks and insecurity in the states. Chief Clark explained that the state of emergency in the…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sixteen Nigerian states have agreed to the establishment of cattle colonies proposed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh as a solution to the incessant herdsmen crisis. It was gathered that some 16 states, all in the North, have volunteered land for the establishment of cattle colonies in…