LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have rescued 360 abductees from a heavily fortified Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) enclave in the Mandara Mountains area of southern Borno State. The military described the operation as one of the most significant hostage rescue missions conducted in…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After his successful participation at the summit on “A New Global Financing Pact” in Paris, France hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived Bissau, capital of Republic of Guinea-Bissau, for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Hadin Kai, 7 division garrison, have arrested 15 members of a suspected criminal group operating within Maiduguri, Borno capital. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, reported that the group was busted by the troops after residents of the Gwange, Umarari and Jajeri areas of…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several Nigerian soldiers died in an attack on a military convoy in the Lake Chad region by jihadist fighters aligned with the Islamic State group, security forces said Tuesday. The convoy was hit by militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) outside the northeastern village of Metele on Friday, leading…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday said that military troops have recovered N15 million cash from the members of Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorist groups and their collaborators in the last two weeks in the Northern part of the country. Director, Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Major-General…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation SAFE HAVEN have continued to sustain their operational tempo in their Area of Operation which had resulted in the arrest of three suspected gun runners and two kidnappers in Plateau State Press statement signed by Director, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters Major General Benard Onyeuko sighted by NewsRangers stated that ,…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Nigeria troops stormed Katsina and Benue states communities where they neutralize bandits/terrorists, terrorizing and killing innocent residents. A statement signed by Director, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters, Major General Onyeuko sighted by NewsRangers revealed that on 15 July 2022 based on credible intelligence, troops of Operation WHIRL STROKE…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger government said Wednesday that the army had killed around 40 Boko Haram jihadis in overnight fighting on islets in Lake Chad. “Some 100 Boko Haram fighters arrived in four large wooden canoes and an armed speedboat” and attempted to attack troops on the islets of the lake, which borders Niger,…