OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE PRESS CONFERENCE: How Camp Zairo in Sambisa Forest was captureed by the Nigerian Troops, We have Won a War says the Army

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The Nigerian Troops overpowered the Boko Haram insurgents and destroyed their logistics in the dreaded sambisa forest in Borno state says the commander of the Opration Lafiya Dole Theatre Centre in Maiduguri!

It was a combined opreations of both the ground and air troops of Nigerian Soldiers and Airforce.

The Teathre Commander, Maj. Gen Iraebor authritatevely confirmed that theNigerian Troops have won the war against against the Boko Haram.

According to him: " We have won the war only that we need to win the peace to the region"

Many items and weapons of the Islamist Terrorists including the one Holy Quran was recovered from Camp Zairo  which is regarded as the last stronghood of the Boko Baram in Borno state.

Boko Harm Fight Back As Troop Make Largest Ever Arms Cache Discovery In Borno State

The Nigeria Army Spokeperson Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, confirmed that the Boko Haram terrorists fighters early Monday (today) attacked the Nigerian soldiers in the northeast of the country, where the jihadists have been waging a seven-year insurgency, the army said.

According to Colonel Usman Boko Haram terrorists attack troops of 113 Battalion at Kareto Northern Borno State.

The troops have been battling the insurgents since early hours of today. On Sunday (17-0416) Nigerian military confirmed to have discovered the largest single cache of arms and ammunition in the Alagarno forest in the northeastern part of the country.

Breaking: Boko Haram attacks soldiers in Borno -Army

According to the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman Boko Haram terrorists this morning attack troops of 113 Battalion at Kareto Northern Borno State.
The troops have been battling the insurgents since early hours of today. 

Boko Haram fighters on Monday attacked Nigerian soldiers in the northeast of the country, where the jihadists have been waging a seven-year insurgency, the army said.

Details to follow shortly.

BOKO HARAM: Soldiers flee to Cameroon, Nigerian military says its ‘tactical manoeuvre’

The Nigerian military has admitted that hundreds of government troops have fled heavy fighting with Boko Haram, but said their apparent escape to neighbouring Cameroon was a “tactical manoeuvre”. 

The Cameroonian army said Monday some 480 Nigerian soldiers who sought refuge in the country, had been disarmed and accommodated in schools.

The news came a day after Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, released a new video in which he declared Gwosa, a town captured by the group, as part of an “Islamic Caliphate”.

A spokesperson for the Army spokesperson, Lt. Col Didier Badjek, was quoted by the BBC as saying that the Nigerian soldiers are currently in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, about 80km from the Nigerian border.

Nigerian soldiers prevent distribution of Vanguard Newspaper in Ibadan, S/South, S/East

Nigerian Soldiers have prevented the distribution of today’s edition of Vanguard newspaper in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state, just as the circulation vehicles going to the South South and South East with the papers were stopped at Ore and Warri in Ondo and Delta states respectively.

In a similar report, soldiers mounting a roadblock close to the tollgate along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway blocked the Leadership newspaper’s van heading to Kaduna and confiscated the entire consignment of the paper. The driver of the vehicle as well as another staff were also detained, with their telephones seized.

The soldiers have however cordoned off all roads leading to Oke Padre, a major distribution point for newspapers and magazines in the South West.