LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI have neutralised several bandits and destroyed their hideouts at Sokoto and Katsina forests in the North West, PRNigeria reports. A military source told PRNigeria that the mission was achieved through air strikes executed on October 5, 2021. This was after series of aerial surveillance missions had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 28 terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) and their collaborators in the fishing businesses last Sunday met their waterloo, PRNigeria learnt from credible intelligence sources. The sources, who are deployed in the North East Theatre Command, in Borno State, said the ISWAP elements and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji in conjunction with other security agencies, successfully repelled an attack by suspected Islamic States for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists and bandits on the Forward Operation Base (FOB) at Burkusuma in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The Military is a statement signed Director Defence…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 30-year-old man and father of a newborn baby, Benjamin Oyelade, has been killed by cows, which ran into him in Atapa area in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State. SaharaReporters gathered that the deceased was enroute Atapa/Iresa Adu Road on Sunday evening when a suspected herdsman bumped into the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob on Saturday attacked the divisional police headquarters in the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State and killed 13 suspected bandits whose corpses were burnt to ashes. The bandits were said to be among those who invaded the area around 8pm on Friday, killing two persons, including a shop…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Islamic State-allied jihadists killed 18 Nigerian security personnel in an ambush on their convoy using roadside bombs and rockets in one of the deadliest assaults on the army this year, military sources said on Thursday. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militants claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on a highway between northeast…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-French officials announced overnight that their military forces had killed the top ISIS leader in Africa, a terrorist for whom the United States had offered a $5 million reward due to his connection to the deadly attack on a team of Green Berets in Niger four years ago. French President Emmanuel Macron…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have overrun a Nigerian military base in Zamfara marking a major setback in the campaign to curb violent crimes across the state. The bandits struck a forward operating base in Mutumji, Dansadau, about 80 kilometres south of the capital Gusau, at about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, The Gazette learnt from military…