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  • Troops destroy Boko Haram training camp in Borno

    The Nigerian Army on Monday said its troops had destroyed a Boko Haram insurgents’ training facility at Benisheikh, Borno.

    Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.

    Nwachukwu said that the troops also killed one insurgent and rescued one person held captive by the terrorists at Afa hideout in the area on Sunday.

    He said that the troops acting on intelligence discovered the camp used for providing instructional training of insurgents’ foot soldiers.

    “Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole deployed at a forward operational base in Benisheikh, have uncovered a Boko Haram training camp where instructional training was provided to its foot soldiers.

    “The camp, located in a hideout in Afa general area, was discovered on Sunday at about 9: 30 a.m. following a tip-off that insurgents were being trained in the hideout.

    “During the operation, troops encountered elements of Boko Haram insurgents who were withdrawing hastily from the camp.

    “In the shootout, troops killed one insurgent, recovered one Dane gun and rescued one Malam Abba, who was held hostage in the camp by the insurgents,” Nwachukwu said.

    He added that the troops had destroyed the camp.

     

  • JUST IN: Troops arrest 3 Boko Haram terrorists at Civilian JTF tip off

    Troops of 23 Brigade Nigerian Army under Operation Lafiya Dole on 28th March 2018, acting on a tip off arrested 3 suspected Boko Haram terrorists at Ngurore.

    TheNewsGuru reports the suspects, Adam Yagga, Musa Kamsulum and Abba Djidoum, are all from Darajimal in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

    According to the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, one of the suspects, Abba Djidoum, with series of gunshot wounds on his thigh, confessed to have operated with the Boko Haram terrorists at fringes of Izza, Wudula and Blakule in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

    The suspect is undergoing preliminary investigation with 23 Brigade Provost Company, the Army said.

    “We commend patriotic members of civilian vigilante (Civilian JTF) for their resilience and continued cooperation with troops, and urge members of the public to emulate their vigilance and security consciousness by reporting any suspicious persons or objects to the nearest military location.

    “We wish to remind repentant Boko Haram fighters that the window of opportunity to embrace the Federal Government Amnesty program is still open for them to surrender and lay down their weapons.

    “It is also gratifying to report that the troops’ morale remains high as they dominate the general area with a robust fighting patrol in continuation with the clearance operations, the Defence Headquarters said in a statement.

     

  • US Ambassador to Nigeria meets in closed door with Borno Governor

    The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington today met in closed door with Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima.

    The State government made this known in a statement and said the meeting was “towards a better Borno”.

    Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over a completely rebuilt Borno community earlier destroyed by Boko Haram to the affected displaced people.

    The rebuilt village is Ngwom, an agrarian community in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, 10km from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

    The village was attacked and completely razed down by Boko Haram in 2014, with over 100 persons killed during the attack.

    The UNDP under its integrated rural development programme initiated the rebuilding of 300 destroyed mud houses with modern bricks and corrugated iron roofs in Ngwom.

    The community was also lifted with newly built 288 market stalls, a school complex, 20 grocery stores, a central mosque, two water boreholes and a police security outpost.

    “It cost the UNDP the sum of $1 million to rebuild the community,” said Edward Kallon, head of the UN in Borno State.

    The project, a pilot for the integrated community development scheme, is part of the post-conflict initiative supported by funding from the Swiss and Japanese governments.

    After Boko Haram attacked and burnt down Ngwom over three years ago, most of the residents fled to Maiduguri, where they lived a less dignified life in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs).

    Those that managed to return to the village weeks after the attack said they could not stand the ruins their homes had become.

    Many of them said due to the massive nature of the destruction, they had to leave with little or no hope of ever returning to rebuild their homes again.

    But on Tuesday the villagers were asked to return to take delivery of the keys to their rebuilt homes.

    Today’s closed door meeting between the US Ambassador to Nigeria and the Borno State Governor took place at the Ambassador’s residence.