LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Women numbering over 500, Thursday, protested in Dura Du community of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State when the military expanded its search for Major General Mohammed I. Alkali (Rtd), who was declared missing since Monday, September 3. Major General Alkali retired from service as the Chief of Administration, Nigerian…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Probitas, the Nigeria-based civil society group, has condemned the invasion of the Dura Du community in Jos South Local Government, North-Central Nigeria, by members of the Nigerian military. A press statement signed by Amaka Nwankwo, Communications Director of PROBITAS made available to NewsRangers disclosed that the soldiers who stormed the community three…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWRANGERS)-Soldiers of the Special Strike Forces deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested against their posting to Marte, a Local Government Area (LGA) in Northern Borno State. The soldiers reacted to the news of the latest posting on Sunday evening by firing gunshots in the air at the Maiduguri International Airport in…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists overran a military base in northeast Nigeria after a ferocious firefight, security sources said Sunday, the second major assault on the country’s forces in two days. The militants invaded a base holding hundreds of soldiers in Yobe state — where they abducted over 100 girls from a school earlier…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the brutal attack on Emeka Ihiegbulem, a correspondent of the PUNCH Newspapers, and calls for an immediate investigation into the incident. On May 22, 2018, a group of men from the army, police and other security agencies beat-up Emeka Ihiegbulem, while he was covering…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rampaging soldiers on Thursday morning set the Benue State town of Naka on fire. Naka is the headquarters of Gwer-West Local Government Area. The soldiers were reported o have set over two hundred houses ablaze in the town, where one person died. A source in Naka town disclosed that the figure of…