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…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Molai, a village four kilometres off Maiduguri, Borno State capital, are currently on the run following a heavy gunfire between soldiers and Boko Haram fighters. A resident told TheCable that the Army has mobilised troops to the area to repel the fighters who struck yesterday. Molai is the only village…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)– At least 12 civilians were killed in multiple Boko Haram jihadist attacks targeting two villages and a camp for those displaced by the bloody conflict in northeastern Nigeria, civilian militia and residents told AFP Thursday. Jihadists in seven trucks late on Wednesday attacked Bulaburin and Kofa villages as well as a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A seasoned journalist and Senior Correspondent with Punch Newspapers, Mr Friday Olokoh has demanded an apology and the sum of N50m from the Nigeria Army as compensation for assault, humiliation and inhuman treatment on him. A letter signed by Olokor’s counsel, Barr Olisa Ugochukwu made available to NewsRangers threatened that if the…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian officials say that seven people have been killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Konduga town in the country’s north. Bello Dambatta, Head of Rescue Operations of Borno State Emergency Management Agency, said Monday that seven others were injured. He said the dead and injured have been evacuated to…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)The inspector-general of police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, says Boko Haram insurgents are set to release Leah Sharibu, an abducted Dapchi schoolgirl, TheCable reports. Sharibu is the only girl in captivity out of the 110 students abducted on February 19. She was held back because of her refusal to convert from Christianity to…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four persons for the alleged murder of their friend for money making rituals. The suspects are presently facing interrogation at that homicide section of the State Criminal and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos. One of the suspects, Daniel said, ”We are from Chibok in…
