The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has presented food and non-food items to the military for Operation Safe Corridor Programme meant to de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate eight hundred (800) repented and surrendered Boko Haram insurgents to fast track peace process in the North east. Presenting the items in Gombe, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army on Monday announced that its troops blocked an attempt by the extremist Boko Haram sect to attack a village in the North Eastern state of Borno.The spokesperson for the Army, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement; “Today, Monday 1st August 2016, at about 8.00pm, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE accompanied by […]
Continue ReadingAs revealed by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, troops returning from Bama on humanitarian escort duty, were ambushed enroute Maiduguri by suspected remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hiding in Meleri village, a few kilometres from Kawuri. The gallant troops however, successfully cleared the ambush and exploited up to Afunori. Unfortunately, 2 […]
Continue ReadingThe Multi-National Joint Task force (MNJTF), finally captured and occupied Damasak town on Thursday July 28, 2016. Damasak is a boundary town between Nigeria and Niger Republic which is located in northern Borno. It is one of the last frontiers of Boko Haram terrorists. The Chief Military Public Information Officer and spokesperson of MNJTF, Colonel […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has charged every Combat Unit in the Nigerian Army to remain focused “until insurgency in the North-East is crushed”. Buratai gave the charge on Wednesday while declaring close, the three-day “Combat Support Arms Training Week 2016″, held at Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri. He also charged the units […]
Continue ReadingThe Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sanni Usman, said there are no more Boko Haram camps in the Northeast. Col. Usman spoke with reporters at the inauguration of Strategic Communication Course for senior officers at the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information, Bonny Camp, Lagos. Usman, while assuring Nigerians that the military […]
Continue ReadingInformation from Sani Usman, acting director of the army public relations, says the Nigerian army has located five soldiers who were declared missing in action after an ambush at Guro Gongon on 20th July 2016. According to him, the soldiers sustained injuries but are now in stable condition at the military’s medical facilities. “Please recall […]
Continue ReadingIn furtherance to ongoing tactical operations to degrade the capabilities and hide-outs of criminal gangs/ syndicates across the Federation, this Service wish to apprise the general public of recent successful progress recorded so far in the drive.2. On 21st July, 2016, one Jones ABIRI aka General Akotebe DARIKORO was arrested by this Service in Yenagoa, […]
Continue ReadingToday morning, troops on clearance patrol at Guro Gongon village and environs to rout out remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hibernating therein, destroyed the terrorists’ makeshift camps and recovered quite a number of weapons, equipment and foodstuff in the process. The recovered items include 1 Gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft Gun, a MOWAG Armoured […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army has confirmed the killing of 42 Boko Haram insurgents during a clearance operation at Garere village in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by the Army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman. Usman also said that 80 hostages comprising 38 women and 42 […]
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