Tag: LAKE CHAD

Over 200 B’Haram terrorists surrender in Lake Chad axis – MJTF

Aminu Imam
B'Haram surrender

In what it described as a significant victory against terrorism, the Multi-national Joint Task Force, (MJTF) yesterday disclosed that 210 Boko Haram terrorists, including conscripted fighters and their families, have surrendered to its troops operating under Sector-2 in Bol, Baga Sola of Lake Chad. According to the spokesman of MNJTF, Lt-Col. Olaniyi Osoba, said the mass surrender followed intensified kinetic and non-kinetic operations in the region. In an issued statement yesterday, he said,  “The surrendered terrorists confessed to having participated in various terrorist acts along the Bakatolerom, Barkalam, Litri, and…

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Military air strikes knock out more terrorists’ hideouts in Borno

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has knocked out more hideouts of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists, killing scores in Borno, Defence Headquarters says. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Enenche said the air raids were conducted at Ngwuri Gana, along the Gulumba Gana-Kumshe axis and Tumbuma Baba on the fringes of Lake Chad, both in the Northern part of Borno. He said the air strikes were conducted under a new subsidiary Operation,…

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