LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Islamic State claimed responsibility for an explosion that it said killed or injured 30 people at a market where alcohol was sold in Taraba State, Nigeria, marking an expansion of the area where the extremist group operates in the country. Northeast Nigeria, especially the states of Borno and Yobe, have been in…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran claimed responsibility Sunday for a missile barrage that struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in northern Iraq, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard earlier this week. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest the attack,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has refuted the claim of a suspect arrested in connection with the raid on the home of Mary Odili, a justice of the supreme court. On October 30, security operatives — made up of soldiers and police officers — stormed the Abuja residence of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday disowned allegations made in parliament by one of its senior officers that soldiers from neighbouring Chad were selling their weapons for $20 or $30, contributing to unrest in northern Nigeria. The navy described the widely reported allegations, made by Commodore Jamila Abubakar Sadiq Malafa on Monday at…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday suggested it has the capacity to transmit election results electronically from remote areas across the country. Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly had been at loggerheads over electronic transmission of results earlier in the week. The House was thrown into disarray on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…