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Gusau then urged residents of Maiduguri to go about their normal businesses during the stipulated period, adding: “Residents are advised to continue with their normal activities within the stipulated period and continue to monitor the media for updates

Senator Lar explained to the lawmakers that the immediate cause of the attack is not known but the people of the affected villages suspect that these are armed militias or Boko Haram or soldiers, but using Nigerian Army uniforms

The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, said in a statement on Saturday: “This is to inform the public that the explosion heard in Jos, Plateau State, this morning was from an accident that occurred while troops authorised to destroy unserviceable ammunition were transporting the bad ammunition

An eyewitness, Jamiu Fakorede said: “The soldiers saw six men walking, but only one of them had a cutlass. Immediately the soldiers called them, one of the men bolted. As others made to run, the soldiers ordered them to stop or they would shoot. The soldiers took the cutlass from them

“One Salim was shot dead by unknown security operatives during the elections. We are not sure of further details but we shall try to find out the circumstances and get back to you,” Emmanuel Abu, spokesman of the command, told the News Agency of Nigeria

“We recovered two AK 47 riffles with 176 rounds of (live) ammunitions, seven magazines, some (144) wraps of Indian hemp, money (N298,500.00) and 10 cell phones from the criminals.

Even journalists were not spared the soldiers’ ordeal as the INEC accreditation cards and reflective jackets were ignored, while each reporter was asked to produce his company ID cards

Omeri, who said there was adequate provision of security during the election period, called on Nigerians to abide by the restriction of vehicular movement as ordered by the police

Investigations by PRNigeria revealed that Defence Headquarters was especially piqued about distracting comments such as the one announcing that some of the cooperating countries have been entering Nigerian territory without Federal Government’s authorisation or that the Defence Headquarters refused to respond to calls by MJTF partners to send troops to liberated communities

The sect members drove in Hillux vans and motor bikes into the town burning vehicles, houses and forcing hundreds of residents to flee to the Cameroonian borders

The fierce fighting that preceded the clearing of towns and other communities resulted in appreciable casualties on the terrorists, the capture of some of them, the recovery and destruction of arms, thousands of assorted rounds ammunition as well as vehicles and other equipment

Israel Ebije, the Chief Press Secretary to the state Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, confirmed to journalists in Minna, the state capital, that the death toll in the operation to dislodge the gunmen from the communities had risen to 30

He further called on the people of the area to go about their normal businesses, adding: “Security operatives are on the trail of the fleeing bandits. They have been pushed very far away from the state

The Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the opposition party was pleased by the assurance by the Defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade, that the armed forces would stick to its constitutional and professional roles of protecting the territorial integrity of Nigeria rather than being diverted in this mission to partisanship

The General Officer Commanding 81 Division, Major General Tamubomiebi Dibi, said there was nothing like that

The statement said: “The Multinational Joint Task Force in which Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad have contingents, are part of the ongoing onslaught against terrorists in this region

But the most callous aspect of the attacks was the conscription and deployment of child-soldiers, teenage-female suicide bombers and animals to frustrate troops

The statement said that residents of Maiduguri were free to go about their business as from 6am on Monday

PRNigeria said it gathered that several attempts by terrorists to attack and takeover the towns in the past had been successfully repelled through intelligence gathering and pre-emptive strikes by the troops

Several dozen fighters belonging to the Boko Haram militant group drove into Biu in pick-up trucks and on motorcycles, witness Yahaya Mshelliza told Reuters by telephone