The military, for the second day in a row, on Saturday engaged the fighter jets of the Nigeria Air Force in its continued battle to dislodge members of the Boko Haram sect.
Sources told The Eagle Online that the remnants of the insurgents, flushed out of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, after a failed attempt to free their arrested members from Giwa Barracks, had started regrouping when information reached the Joint Task Force.
It was learnt that they were regrouping around the country’s borders towards Bama in Borno State.
The Eagle Online was told that the air raid was to soften the ground for the ground troops to move in to complete the mop up operation it started after the routing of the Boko Haram sect in the battle in Maiduguri on Friday.
The Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, confirmed the development.
Olukolade told The Eagle Online that details of the operation would be made available by the Defence Headquarters later on Saturday.
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