Major General Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, confirmed the arrest of the council chairman during a news conference at the 7 Division headquarters in Maiduguri
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This information was contained in a statement by the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sani Usman
Ola,who was a member of the House of Representatives in the Second Republic, suggested that adopting the civilian JTF approach in addressing militancy in the Niger Delta should not be ruled out since it worked so well in providing the community component to fighting Boko Haram in the North East
He explained that the suspected vandals had dug and planted dynamites beneath the pipeline location in a swamp for detonation before the troops foiled the sabotage operation.
Further to that, in continuation of Operation CRACKDOWN, troops of 25 Brigade Damboa in conjunction with Civilian JTF deployed in one of the blocking positions at Baale, near Damboa rescued one Miss Amina Ali and a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Mohammed Hayatu, who claimed to be her husband
This is the first of the Chibok girls to be rescued since their capture two years ago
The patrol team later made startling discovery in the area as they found it served as the Boko Haram terrorists’ administration and harbour area, Field Hospital and Improvised Explosive Devices making factory
“One of the agenda on the blue print is youth integration, which encapsulates all youths in the state, including members of the civilian JTF.”
Lawan said that the blue print made provision for the creation of a youth empowerment agency to cater for the members of the civilian JTF
Shira was said to have been arrested at a motor park at about 8.30am along with 10 other suspected members of the group who escorted him to Damboa to connect a vehicle to Biu enroute to Lagos State
The mosque was filled to the brim in celebration of the Maulud Nabiy, which is the birth of Prophet Mohammed, when the suspects were intercepted
Hassan said that the suspects were nabbed while filling their jerry cans with petrol at midnight of Thursday in Birniwa
An attempt by a suicide bomber to attack and wreak havoc at Rumirgo Market in Askira Uba Local Government Area…
Colonel Mustapha Anka, the Media Coordinator of the task force, told newsmen on Tuesday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State that the efforts of the JTF had significantly reduced the menace of oil theft in the region
The confession was made by a female suicide bomber arrested by the Civilian JTF
According to the eyewitness, the scene of the blast was a busy area where people gathered to transact business, adding that the explosive might have been planted there overnight, while it went off in the morning as people gathered there
Sources said the gunmen, using Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and armed with AK-47 rifles, improvised explosive devices and petrol bombs (Molotov Cocktail), were sighted at Kareto by some good Samaritans
Dr. Mohammed Dongel, the Chairman of the 19-man committee on the resuscitation of primary school education in the state, said this in a meeting with education secretaries and headmasters of public schools in Maiduguri
Gunda, who is the Secretary of the Borno Vigilante Group called Civilian JTF, said: “It is time for us to act toward recapturing the towns seized by the insurgents
Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha Anka, spokesman of the JTF, told News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday that the patrol team successfully repelled the two attacks
The statement said that a civilian JTF, if established, would partner closely with security operatives to fish out undesirable elements with links to armed insurgents