Troops Repel Boko Haram Attack in Gwoza, Recover Firearms

Troops Repel Boko Haram Attack in Gwoza, Recover Firearms

Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai, have successfully repelled a midnight assault by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists targeting a military position at Limankara, along the Gwoza road in Borno State.

Insecurity: Despite N12.6trn Allocations, Nigeria Continues To Battle Boko Haram, Others

The killing of the 39-year-old founding leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in Maiduguri, Borno State, was supposed to put paid to the 2009 insurgency uprising in the North-East; instead, the group has since morphed into one of the world’s deadliest terrorist groups, defying various counterterrorism measures. Starting from the late President Umar Musa Yar’adua-led government, Weekend Trust reports that successive administrations have deployed …