LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has denied claims that Haruna Garba Gololo, popularly known as Garus Gololo, is a retired general in the Nigerian Army. In a statement issued on Tuesday via its social media platforms, the Army described reports identifying Gololo as a retired Nigerian Army General as false and misleading. The reaction followed a…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-one civilians held hostage following a Sunday morning church attack in north-west Nigeria have been rescued, the army has said. Five others were killed as gunmen targeted Easter celebrations at a church in Ariko, Kaduna state, according to a statement from the security forces. A local church official had earlier put the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Nigerian Army on Monday evening repelled an ambush by terrorists believed to be members of the Lakurawa group who attacked the convoy of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Major-General Bemgha Koughna, at Maiyama Forest in Maiyama Local Government Area of Kebbi State. In…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-nine generals of the Infantry Corps of the Nigerian Army have retired from active military service. Of the 29 retired infantry officers who pulled out of active service at the Jaji Military Cantonment in Kaduna State on Friday, 19 were major generals, and 10 were brigadiers general. Among them is Major General…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has confirmed a minor explosion within Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos on Monday. In a statement by the director of army public relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, he said the incident occurred on a farmland near the Mammy Market within the cantonment. He said, “The explosion is suspected to have been…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian soldiers were on Monday hunting for armed kidnappers who seized nearly 300 school pupils in Kaduna state last week, a security source said, as distraught parents sought answers on when they would be reunited with their children. The source said the army’s Kaduna-based One Division was leading the operation and “will…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 81 Division, Nigerian Army (NA) soldiers have prevented a woman, Francesca Spark, who plunged into the Lagos Lagoon around 81 Division Officers’ Mess, Marina, from killing herself. The army disclosed this in a statement by the division’s spokesman, Lt.-Col. Olabisi Ayeni, on Monday. Ms Spark attempted to take her own life,…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the mass burial of at least 103 protesters who were massacred by joint forces of the Nigerian Army and the police during the October 2020 mass protest against police brutality tagged. In a letter seen by Peoples Gazette and dated July 19 by the…