LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“Nine years after 276 schoolgirls were abducted in the middle of the night from their dormitory in Chibok, Nigeria, 96 girls remain in captivity, and thousands more children have been subjected to grave violations of their rights,” United Nation Children Funds (UNICEF) lamented while commemorating Ninth Anniversary of the abduction Chibok girls….
LAGOS DECEMBR 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is expecting to take delivery of 54 new air assets, including attack aircraft and helicopters as well as aerial drones, to boost its capabilities to fight insecurity in the country, Chief of Air Staff Marshal Amao said on Thursday. A 13-year-old Islamist insurgency in the northeast and kidnappings for ransom by…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Having paid a ransom three times to secure the freedom of his loved ones, Nigerian businessman Lawal Ado is not impressed by moves to outlaw payments to kidnappers. A controversial bill to criminalise ransom payments is the latest attempt to curb the country’s spiralling and lucrative kidnapping industry. It proposes a jail…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons, the army said on Tuesday. Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been fighting the Nigerian armed forces for more than a decade in a conflict that has killed hundreds…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” is ringing increasingly hollow. Seven months into his first term in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari coined the term, but the group and its offshoots have never gone away. The military has managed to retake territory and dislodged the fighters from…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, says he will contest for the chairmanship of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) if the position is zoned to the North-east. Mr Sheriff said this on Saturday in Damaturu, Yobe State. Mr…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are concerns among residents and political leaders in Borno State following the influx of displaced Boko Haram insurgents and members of the Islamic States of West Africa (ISWAP) into the state after they were attacked in Chad and chased away by Chadian troops. Following the onslaught by the Chadian forces, the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGES)-The debate in the country for some time now has been where the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 would come from. And now that the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the…
