LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Borno State Government on Thursday said it is “aware of the escape of some repentant insurgents” who recently surrendered themselves. The government however debunked that they absconded with government arms, adding that preliminary investigation reveals that’s not true. In a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof Usman…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Major-General Bamidele Shafa, yesterday said that another batch of 606 ex-Boko Haram fighters are set to be reunited with their families after undergoing rehabilitation under the Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor program. Shafa made this known at the opening of a stakeholders’ meeting to work out…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Should ‘A Bill for the Establishment of the National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria and for Other Connected Purposes’, be signed into law, repentant Boko Haram members will be funded to get foreign education. “The agency shall implement programmes geared towards the rehabilitation of…