The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai has approved special promotion for 3,729 troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE who participated in Operation DEEP PUNCH II in Sambisa Forest to crush Boko Haram terrorists. A statement by the army said the promotion “Is in recognition of their valour and uncommon commitment to…
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35 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed in a joint operation involving Nigerian and Cameroonian Troops, in furtherance of Operation Deep Punch to smoke out remnants of Boko Haram Terrorists in the Northern fringes of Lake Chad and Sambisa Forest. The troops took the battle to the terrorists in their enclaves at Kusha-Kucha, Surdewala, Alkanerik,…
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Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the missing Chibok girls who was rescued Tuesday by an army backed vigilante group, has been handed over to Borno State Governor, Kashim Shetima at the Government house in Maiduguri. The 19-year old who was found with a 4-month-old baby and Mohammed Ayatu, a Boko Haram terrorist claiming to be…
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As Nigerians celebrate the Independence Day in the country, celebrations are far from the people of Kirchinga village in Adamawa state. Reports in Premium Times claim that at least 5 people were brutally killed by Boko Haram insurgents in fresh attacks earlier today. According to an eye witness, who had to flee the area, the…
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Nigerian troops have rescued an additional 234 women and children held captive by the terrorist group BokoHaram, inside the Sambisa forest in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. A Defence Ministry tweet on Friday evening local time said the hostages were rescued on Thursday from the Kawuri and Konduga end of the expansive forest, which is about…
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Nigerian Federal troops on Tuesday afternoon rescued 200 girls and 93 women from the Sambisa forest, the last stronghold of the Boko Haram in Borno State. Nigeria’s Defence Ministry tweeted that “Troops captured and destroyed 3 terrorists camps including the notorious Tokumbere camp in the forest” during an operation. “The freed persons are now being…
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Nigerian warplanes bombed training camps and equipment belonging to Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeast’s Sambisa forest on Thursday, the military said, adding momentum to an assault meant to crush the rebels also involving neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger. According to reports by THEWILL, “The death of a large number of terrorists has been…
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