Tukur Buratai, has solicited for the cooperation of all Borno residents and citizens of Nigeria in ending Boko Haram insurgency by providing credible information on the “hideouts and modus operandi” of the terrorists. Only soldiers on guard were seen everywhere.
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The mark on their backs indicates that they are ready to die, Sidi said.
Buratai assured the soldiers of improved welfare even as he relayed the greetings of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the commander in chief.
The convoy of the Army Chief had to slow down when radio messages blared in that an advance team moving ahead of his had ran into an ambush.
“It should be recalled that the Nigerian Air Force had inflicted heavy damage on the terrorists’ camps within the general area last Monday”.
An estimated 80 to 200 Boko Haram fighters are in the Libyan city of Sirte, according to Nigeria analyst Jacob Zenn, in The Sentinel magazine of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation. They feel belonged and we also feel being part of them. Two Nigerians studying in India were arrested August 7 as they tried to cross illegally into Pakistan, planning to join IS in Iraq, it said. The head of the family explained his wife had been shot by Boko Haram terrorists the previous days and he needed to take her and his sick child to the hospital.
Lieutenant General Buratai addressed the troops and commended them for keeping the morale high.
In Dikwa, the chief of Army staff was welcome with cheers by over 4000 internally displaced persons from Gamboru and neighbouring towns, who were full of praise and prayers for him and the soldiers. This fight has to come to an end.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are strengthening ties with the Islamic State group, as shown by reports that Nigerian militants are fighting in Libya, recent arrests in Lebanon and India and the blocking of thousands of suspected extremists from leaving Nigeria.
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Chief of army staff made a brief stop at Mafa, addressing the troops of the 112 battalion.
