LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits have burnt to death the Deanery of the Catholic Church in Kaffinkoro town in the Psikoro local government area of Niger state Reverend Father Isaac Achi. His assistant in the church Reverend father Collins also sustained gunshot injuries and had been rushed to the hospital. THISDAY…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Ms Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, has disclosed that 500,000 Nigerians are awaiting repatriation in three countries. Suleiman-Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York at the 77th session of UN General Assembly that the refugees would be repatriated from Niger, Chad…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s military says that its joint operation with Niger’s army has killed at least 100 extremist rebels. The Burkina Faso armed forces said on Friday that its joint force with neighboring Niger also arrested 20 suspects and seized significant equipment from the rebels in the past two weeks. At least 13…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state. The conflict between the insurgents and Nigeria’s armed forces has also spread to…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian teenagers, irked by the illegal and unjust annulment of the June 12, 1993 general election by the Ibrahim Babangida administration, hijacked a Nigeria Airways aircraft flying from Lagos to Abuja and diverted it to Niamey, Niger Republic. The incident took place on a Monday, October 25, 1993, at a time…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello have been arrested in Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with cocaine weighing 1.1kilogramme, which has a street value of N264million. While Okoro was intercepted with 900grammes of cocaine in a commercial bus along Abuja-Gwagwalada road…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of residents of the northeast Nigerian town of Damasak were fleeing into neighbouring Niger on Wednesday trying to escape days of jihadist attacks, locals and a military source told AFP. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Wednesday launched a renewed assault on a military base in the…
