The ISWAP and Boko Haram elements, PRNigeria gathered, rode on dozen gun trucks, and attempted to dislodge a military base, after invading the community in Borno State
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PRNigeria had on Friday reported that Nigerian troops assisted by fighter helicopters from the NAF foiled terrorists attack in Gaidam, the hometown of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Baba Alkali, and immediate past Governor of Yobe State, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam.
PRNigeria gathered that the terrorists struck when some special forces of the 27 Task Force Brigade, deployed at Buni Gari had gone out on clearing patrol in the axis.
On its twitter handle @HQNigerianArmy, the Army Headquarters said on Thursday that there was indeed an attack by the terrorists sometime on Wednesday, but they were effectively repelled by troops.
An intelligence officer told PRNigeria that the young soldiers were killed when they wanted to apprehend a man suspected to be a spy for terrorists.
The brutal and precision-guided airstrikes were conducted by the undeterred Air Task Force coming a week after the missing of NAF’s Alpha jet.
Bloody rival clashes between ISWAP and some Boko Haram terrorists from the Buduma tribe in the Niger Republic has claimed at least the lives of 54 terrorists and herders within the last one months.
The insurgents, on foot and in several trucks fitted with machine guns, attacked Nigerian soldiers outside the town of Wulgo as well as Cameroonian soldiers deployed from across the border to assist.
PRNigeria gathered that troops of Sector 1 Operation Lafiya Dole, led by the Commanding Officer of 3 Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Samson Olaseigbe, who were on a clearance patrol in the area, cleared Gulwa village with little or no resistance from the terrorists and proceeded to Musiri District, where they engaged in heavy gun battle with another set of terrorists, which lasted for an hour.
The convoy came under heavy attack from Islamic State West Africa Province fighters near Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region on Thursday, the sources said.
PRNigeria gathered that the airstrikes were conducted on four major ISWAP hideouts on March 6, 2020.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammad Yerima via a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, said the information was false.
This was not written by flesh but by the Holy Spirit and it is what I have been saying for the last few years. He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying.
Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, Coordinator Defence Media Operations, made the clarification, while giving update on military operations in the last one week, aimed at addressing current insecurity challenges across the country.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Sunday, said the success came after the earlier destruction of seven gun trucks by combined ground and air operations.
PRNigeria gathered that the ISWAP elements on Friday attempted to invade and massacre soldiers in a military base at Marte.
Enenche gave the figure on Thursday, while giving update on operations conducted to check criminality in the country during the period.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Thursday said the air raids were executed on Wednesday.
The new Governor replaces Amir Goni Maina, after the ISWAP warlord was eliminated in a Nigerian Army and Nigerian Air Force coordinated military bombardment.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.