LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A breakaway Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State in West Africa has seized some towns in Borno and Yobe states, providing protection to Muslim residents and collecting taxes from them, Reuters reports. The Federal Government and the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have, however, described the report as a tissue of lies….
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has responded to a statement by former Minister of Information, Edwin Clark seeking state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. Edwin Clark on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the three states in view of the…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. He said the call was in view of the persistent terrorists’ attacks and insecurity in the states. Chief Clark explained that the state of emergency in the…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…