LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji in conjunction with other security agencies, successfully repelled an attack by suspected Islamic States for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists and bandits on the Forward Operation Base (FOB) at Burkusuma in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The Military is a statement signed Director Defence…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The Nigerian military on Wednesday released 1,009 ex-Boko Haram insurgents, who had been in military custody at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The former terrorists were handed over to the Borno State Government in a secret ceremony that was initially billed to take place at an earlier date but…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five of the kidnapped students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka, Kaduna state, have been “recovered” by the Nigerian military. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State disclosed this in a brief statement Monday. According to Aruwan, “The Nigerian military has informed the Kaduna State Government…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram Terrorist group has released a new video a few days after the military authorities in Nigeria declared him wanted. According to Shekau in the new video, he dared the military, declaring that he and his fighters can’t be arrested by the military and even if…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s military is understaffed and underfunded to tackle the various security challenges facing the country, the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, has said. Mr Magashi, who briefed journalists after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said he made a presentation at the meeting on the security challenges facing Nigeria. “We spoke about…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The Nigerian military are unlawfully detaining boys and men at a rehabilitation centre for alleged members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. In the latest allegations of rights abuses since Boko Haram began its insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast, Amnesty criticised…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Borno State Government has said about 1,400 repentant Boko Haram suspects have been released by the military and rehabilitated into society. The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jato, told The PUNCH during an interview on Monday that 1, 400 had been released in three tranches since the ‘Operation Safe Corridor’…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to the Niger Delta has launched a manhunt in the creeks and waterways for the gunmen who attacked a gunboat stationed behind ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s residence in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Major Jonah Unuakhalu Spokesman, Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe, who disclosed this on Tuesday,…