LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the House of Representatives from Borno State, Ahmadu Jaha (APC, Damboa/Gwoza/Chibok) says Boko Haram insurgents are occupying eight of the 10 local government areas in the northern part of the state. Jaha said this during the plenary session of the house yesterday while contributing to a motion on the…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-two Soldiers and seven policemen were among no fewer than 310 Nigerians killed in May following the insecurity in the country, a report by a media tracking group, Nigeria Mourns, has revealed. According to the report released in Abuja on Thursday, Zamfara, Borno and Katsina States topped the list of the States…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-Islamic State’s West Africa branch claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a raid in Nigeria two days earlier in which it said 20 soldiers had been killed, and released a video purporting to show the execution of nine other Nigerian soldiers. A security source and a humanitarian worker, both requesting anonymity because they…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) involved in the fight against insurgency, on Sunday, suffered a setback as the rotor of a helicopter killed an air chief marshal simply identified as Umar. Naija News learned that the aircraft was said to have developed a fault. A report by TheCable quoted an…