LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 1,800 inmates have escaped after a heavily armed gang attacked a prison in southern Nigeria using explosives, correctional authorities said Monday, in one of the West African country’s largest jailbreaks. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, announced the donation of N20 million each to families of soldiers and policemen killed by members of proscribed Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Biafra (IPOB) in Oyigbo last week. According to reports, five soldiers and three policemen were killed on October 21 while the area…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hours after its inauguration, the Northern Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN), on Thursday, January 8, has kicked against the formation of ‘Operation Amotekun’ in the southwest zone of the country. Daily Trust reports that the national president of NYCN, Isah Abubakar, in a statement issued in Kaduna, urged President Muhammadu Buhari, not…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned what it described as barbaric and disgraceful the attack on peaceful protest of its members by South African police. The group said the act was an indication that state sanctioned politics of savagery has taken firm hold in Cyril Ramaphosa’s South Africa. In a…
LAGOS AUGUST26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the order given by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to attack any Nigerian leader who travels abroad, members of the group have converged on Japan in anticipation of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari is billed to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Asari Dokubo, a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND has reacted to the recent attack on the Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Dokubo, in a recent video made available to POLITICS NIGERIA, attacked the leader…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has placed a N1 million bounty on all the governors in the South East region, Igbere TV reports. This was announced by leader of the group, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, during a worldwide broadcast on the IPOB official Facebook page, on Sunday. The affected governors are Dave…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Germany have arrested some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who attacked Senator Ike Ekweremadu earlier today in the country. Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM made the revelation in a tweet. “I condemn in its entirety the attack on former DSP…