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…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army (NA) has been declared overall winner of the just concluded 2022 Armed Forces Inter-Service Sports Competition (AFISSC), which ended at the Defence Headquarters Sports Complex, Mogadishu Military Cantonment, Abuja on Thursday, 22 September 2022. To emerged overall champion, the NA clinched first positions in cross country, taekwondo and volleyball…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops, on Sunday, foiled an attempt to kidnap the Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese, Most Reverend Augustine Ukwuoma. DAILY POST reports that the incident occurred at the Orlu Diocesan Catholic Secretariat, BSC Road, Orlu Imo State. The Catholic Bishop was saved after troops responded to a distress call at about 2:30am…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops conducting Exercise GOLDEN DAWN have killed one of the Biafran National Guard gunmen who attacked troops’ location at Amaekpu, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State on Thursday. This is contained in a statement by the spokesman for the Nigerian Army, Onyema Nwachukwu. “The assailants, who were heavily armed and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)– Close to 6,000 fighters from the Boko Haram Islamist insurgent group in northeast Nigeria have surrendered in recent weeks, the Nigerian armed forces said on Thursday, attributing the development to the military’s counter-insurgency efforts. Some 350,000 people have died in the conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian army since it…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With a title, “DISCLAIMER: DISREGARD DOCTORED VIDEO AIMED AT DENIGRATING THE NA”, the Nigerian army in a statement signed by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations, has denied reports that soldiers of the Nigerian army invaded and destroyed farmlands in Enugu, South East of Nigeria, stressing that the video footage…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Forces approved by the Defence Headquarters to halt the senseless killings and restore peace in Southern Kaduna have arrived Kafanchan ahead of their deployment to the various flashpoints in the area later today. The Special Forces were drawn from the Nigerian Army. They were received at Sector 7, the headquarters…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have demanded that the Nigerian Army should produce kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, allegedly set free by soldiers who attacked a police team in Taraba State on Tuesday. Three officers described as best hand in the police and one other person were killed when soldiers opened fire on the bus conveying…
