LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Probitas, the Nigeria-based civil society group, has condemned the invasion of the Dura Du community in Jos South Local Government, North-Central Nigeria, by members of the Nigerian military. A press statement signed by Amaka Nwankwo, Communications Director of PROBITAS made available to NewsRangers disclosed that the soldiers who stormed the community three…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Retired Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has accused Nigerian Military of ethnic cleansing, just as he urged Nigerians to defend themselves from killers across the country instead of depending on the armed forces. Danjuma, a former chief of army staff from 1976-1979, said this yesterday in a live telecast programme of the…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…