LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger State Police Command has recovered 50 rounds of live anti-aircraft ammunition abandoned by fleeing bandits following intense bombardment from the military in Sulupawa village through Rijau to Kumbashi and Kakihum areas of Mariga Local Government of Niger State. The State Police spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, confirmed the development in a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The Defence Headquarters has said a notorious terrorist kingpin in Jigawa State known as Mai Hijabi has been killed in an operation conducted during the week. This, the DHQ said, was part of its effort to destroy the fighting capacities of terror groups across the Northern parts of the country. The Director,…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Armed Forces of Nigeria, yesterday, described those, allegedly, calling for regime change under the guise of #EndBadGovernance protest as representing less than one per cent of the country’s population. They expressed their resolve to resist such attempt. Speaking at a joint press conference of the service chiefs and other heads of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria military has denied report in several headlines and news purporting to suggest that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor CFR, had alluded to the military (and other security agencies) being under pressure to compromise the 2023 elections. The Nigeria Military in a statement signed by Major General Jimmy…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Reuters, an international news agency, now part of Thomson Reuters, wrote that it was working on a series of stories about purported actions of the Nigerian military during the government’s 13-year war against Islamist insurgents in the country’s North East. To them, they were committed to producing an accurate, fair and complete…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s military is urging people in three northwestern states to leave forested areas ahead of a bombing campaign targeting bandits and terrorists, according to local broadcast stations and a military official. An advertisement running on local television and radio stations warned people in Zamfara, Katsina and the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. State Department has cleared the sale of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria worth nearly $1 billion, apparently after U.S. lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Thursday announced the sale of the helicopters and related defense systems to the Nigerian military. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s military said Thursday it carried out a “precise and professionally executed” air strike on a jihadist camp in the Lake Chad area where locals and security sources said 20 fishermen were killed this week. The fishermen were killed in the bombardment on Sunday on Daban Masara in Lake Chad, which straddles…