LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten-year-old Abdul stood on a dirt road in a village tucked between millet fields and pulled up his shirt. A fresh scar stretched lengthwise down his stomach — the result of a suicide bombing by Boko Haram in June that sent shrapnel tearing through his belly. A half dozen other boys crowded…
By Paul Carsten LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) – When Islamic State gunmen stormed the northeast Nigerian town of Magumeri on the night of August 21, they had free rein. Nigerian soldiers had left the town earlier that month under a new strategy of withdrawing to “super camps” that can be more easily defended against insurgents…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested an officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death sentence…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- A photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ibrahim Bashir has been detained by soldiers at the venue of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) convocation in Kaduna. The soldiers also seized the photojournalist’s camera and took him to the guardroom. Daily Trust gathered that the soldiers, who detained…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Borno state have revealed that they have lost confidence in the military over the lingering Boko Haram crisis saying Boko Haram now attacks without any counter measure. In an open letter signed by Hassan Boguma, a traditional ruler, the residents accused the military of not doing enough saying the present…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh information has emerged on what really went down between operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team and some soldiers along Ibi-Jalingo Road, Taraba State on Wednesday, leading to the shooting and subsequent death of three operatives and a civilian. According to security agents, the order to attack the…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An assistant superintendent of police, Vincent Maxwell, has said that the policemen who were killed by soldiers were involved in the arrest of kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans, a Boko Haram commander and several of his group members. The ASP further said the late policemen also rescued the father-in-law…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Defence Headquarters to begin investigation of the incident involving the troops of 93 Battalion, Takum, Taraba, which resulted in the death of three police officers and a civilian. Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, said President Buhari gave the directive on Thursday during a meeting of…