Two aid workers on Monday confirmed the development to Reuters, citing local authorities and eyewitnesses.
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The report by an online platform said over 20 army personnel were attacked by an Air Force coordinated airstrike in Mainok, Maiduguri after they were mistaken for Boko Haram terrorists.
He said: “Sixteen out of 58 federal tertiary institutions or centres were exempted from the initial centre-based strike for the commitment of the Chief Medical Director of the hospitals to implement the Federal Government’s directives.”
The statement said the places reported to have been struck by the Chadians are therefore most likely to be in Niger Republic and not Nigeria as widely reported in the international media