The operation was conducted by the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji.
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The Information Officer to the Operation, Lt. Suleiman Omale said this in a statement in Gusau on Wednesday.
The neutralised terrorists have been identified mostly as the foot soldiers of a deceased bandit kingpin, Abdulkareem Boss.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja.
The bandits, PRNigeria gathered, were among those who fled air strikes by a Nigerian military jet in the State.
PRNigeria gathered that the precision airstrikes were executed at Dangwandi and Tsakai in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
A military source told PRNigeria that the mission was achieved through air strikes executed on October 5, 2021.
In an intelligence sighted by PRNigeria, the security personnel were killed at a remote border settlement.
The failed attack, which took place at about 5:30am, 26 September 2021, in the remote border settlement with Niger Republic was swiftly repelled by troops, according to a statement by Major-General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, the Director Defence Information.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja
The jet also conducted air offensives around Zangon Dammaka and Jajaye areas where Kachalla Haru and his loyalists hibernated.
Bassey, also the Force Commander, Operation Hadarin Daji, stated this on Saturday in Gusau, Zamfara State.
PRNigeria gathered that local and foreign high profile bandit leaders were struck at the designated location which happened to be the residence of bandit leader Halilu Tubali at the North of Sububu Forest.
PRNigeria gathered that the fighter jet while returning from an aerial operation, sighted the bandits on motorcycles after they had blocked Magami-Gusau road while attempting to kidnap the commuters.
The NAF jets’ bombardments also killed no fewer than 78 bandits, a source told PRNigeria.
Yahaya gave the charge while addressing troops during his operational tour of 8 Division, its formations and units.