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 NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine women have been abducted by suspected insurgents in Takulashi village of Chibok town in Borno state. According to local sources, 11 men were killed in the operation that occurred on Sunday morning. The insurgents reportedly attacked mourners in Takulashi village, barely 15 kilometers to the local government headquarters. Villagers told Channels…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists have killed seven people on Christmas Eve in a raid on a Christian village near the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, local militia and residents told AFP Wednesday. Dozens of fighters driving trucks and motorcycles stormed into Kwarangulum late Tuesday, shooting fleeing residents and burning homes…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara, has donated some parts of the enclave of the Boko Haram, Sambisa forest, for the controversial Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) programme. The governor also mobilised the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Agro Rangers and hunters to secure the large expanse of the forest and…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWRANGERS)-What could have resulted in a repeat of the Chibok and Dapchi school girls’ abductions was averted in Zamfara State on Wednesday night when bandits stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Moriki in Zurmi Local Council of Zamfara State. No student was kidnapped as the abductors could not break the locks before…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Representatives of Chibok in Borno and Dapchi in Yobe on Sunday sought spiritual help at The Synagogue, the Church of All Nations, at Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos to pray for the release of Leah Sharibu and other students kidnapped by Boko Haram. The representatives who carried several placards told the General Overseer, Prophet Temitope…
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 DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The claim by the Buhari administration that normalcy has been restored to the north east of the country is a “lie”, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Humanitarian Affairs, Sani Mohammed, has said. The lawmaker, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said the region has “failed”,…