Haruna, also the Commander Sector 1 of the Nigeria Army, stated this on Sunday during a visit to the frontline troops.
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About 20 of the victims were allegedly killed by the gunmen on October 30, while another 20 were reportedly killed on October 31.
Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesman, spoke on the reported invasion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The incident happened in the Jakana axis of the road.
It is not clear the casualty at the moment but reports indicated that the insurgents tried to launch an attack on University of Maiduguri from the northeast behind the military trench which is behind the university.
The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko Haram insurgents.
Gbajabiamila, who expressed sadness over the killings of the innocent rice farmers, said the incident has once again brought to the fore the need for more military action against the terrorists.
Kallon, in a statement released in Maiduguri, said he was utterly shocked and horrified by the gruesome killing of some of his colleagues and partners by non-state armed groups in Borno State.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Federal Government will ensure that permanent peace and stability returned to the troubled North East, charging the Armed Forces to make clinical finishing of the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents.
Nigerian security forces on Saturday repelled attack by ‘Boko Haram’ insurgents in Sajeri community of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno.
The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force on Operation DIRAN MIKIYA has recorded successes in a renewed air offensive against bandits in Zamfara and its environs.
Biu, who made the call while addressing troop in Bama town of Borno State, said the situation had changed, hence the need to change tactics by remaining focused, motivated and confident in order to complete the good work.
Biu gave the charge while addressing officers and men of the division shortly after he assumed office in the division on Saturday in Maiduguri.
Edet Okon, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, said this in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Brig.-Gen. Texas Chukwu, the Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement said that one insurgent was killed while several others fled.
Bwacha, who is the Senate Deputy Minority Leader, disclosed this to newsmen at Mararraba while reacting to the decision.
Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Theatre Command, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Cameroon’s semi-arid far North region has been a target of Boko Haram suicide bombings and raids for eight years as the Islamist insurgency spilled over the border from Nigeria, killing 20,000 and uprooting nearly three million in the Lake Chad region.
Usman said that the troops, in joint operations with the Air Force and Civilian Joint Task Force, on Tuesday attacked insurgents’ hideouts at Mogole, Ngaiwa, Tongule, and Warsele villages of Ngala Local Government Area of the state.
The Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force Headquarters, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.