LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso. Ahmed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ouagadougou on Monday She said the victims were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ouagadougou (AFP) – West African leaders on Saturday announced a billion-dollar plan to fight the rising problem of jihadist violence in the region, at a summit in Burkina Faso. The plan, to be funded from 2020 to 2024, was announced at end of the Economic Community Summit of West African States in…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of towns and villages along the Opara Forest Reserve in Oyo State and Imeko Forest Reserve in Ogun State are living in fear following the invasion of the two reserves by herdsmen from African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali among others. Some residents of Imeko, Iwoye and Jabata told SUNDAY PUNCH…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists. Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. (0900 GMT) in the town of Dablo in the Central North…
