The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
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The convoy, comprising of Military personnel and members of the CJTF, was heading to the base in Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area, when they came under heavy attack by the Boko Haram faction of the ISWAP in five gun trucks.
Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, made this known while briefing newsmen on the operations of the Armed Forces of Nigeria between November 5 and November 11, on Thursday in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the airstrikes also destroyed the terrorists’ logistics hub on the fringes of Lake Chad in Northern Borno.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, said this while giving weekly update on the activities of the military across theatres of operation on Thursday in Abuja.
The ISWAP faction is led by Amir Abubakar Ba Lawan and Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, one of the surviving sons of Boko Haram jihadists founder, the late Mohammed Yusuf.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said scores of terrorists were killed in the attack.
The call was made by the party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Prince Adelaja Adeoye, on Sunday.
The Chief of Military Public Information for MNJTF, Colonel Muhammed Dole, disclosed this in a statement issued at Ndjamena, Chad on Wednesday.
One of them confirmed that the ISWAP group was escaping from recently destroyed camps by the Nigerian Army in coordination with the Nigerian Air Force and troops from the Multi-National Joint Task Force.
The precise intelligence-led airstrike resulted in the killing of more than 150 ISWAP unit specialist fighters along the fringes of the Lake Chad and Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Impeccable sources with inside knowledge of the Al-Qaeda and ISIS linked jihadist operations in the region confirmed that about 10 of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls currently camped at Garin-Maluma and Sabil-Huda had “voluntarily” converted to Islam and selected new Muslim names
The defector voluntarily denounced ISWAP/Boko Haram and surrendered to troops of the MNJTF
The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that 11 members Islamic States of West Africa Province terrorists have surrendered to the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in North East.
This is in continuation of the efforts at ensuring the final defeat of terrorists Boko Haram/ISWAP in the region.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, added that structures belonging to the terrorists were also destroyed.
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole on Saturday killed scores of Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province terrorists in an encounter at Buni Gari village in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
Buratai gave the charge in his message to the officers and men of OPLD on the Final Clearance of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists on Thursday in Ngamdu, Borno State
“The Lake Chad Basin Is So Culturally Intertwined That All Hands Must Be on Deck At The Same Time – This is the Only Answer To Jihadist End Game In The Region.”