LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Numerous properties and shops were destroyed following a fire at the GSM market in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. The market which is popularly known as Jagwol is located at the Post Office area of the Maiduguri metropolis. It is a hub for GSM traders and artisans and the biggest computer village in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has disclosed that about 847 Nigerian soldiers killed by the Boko Haram terrorists from 2013 till date were buried in the Military Cemetery located in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Ndume made this known while fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja on…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gunmen from an IS-affiliated jihadist group on Tuesday shot dead 11 local construction workers in northeast Nigeria, a militia leader and resident told AFP. The fighters belonging to Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) opened fire on the workers as they were laying telecom fibre optic cables in Wajirko village,…
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…
By Joe Parkinson LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NESRANGERS) – More than 2,000 people protested Sunday in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, calling for a ban on the anti-Boko Haram CJTF militia they accuse of abuses after the killing of a rickshaw driver. The protesters blocked major roads in the Suleimanti area of the city and set fires, causing…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that Boko Haram insurgents have attacked its 330/132kv transmission substation at Molai in Maiduguri, Borno State, throwing residents into darkness. A statement by the General Manager (Public Affairs), TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said that during the attack, two post isolators porcelain units were affected. Two…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans…