The battle against the Boko Haram insurgency in the North Eastern region of Nigeria may be far from over as the insurgents seem to have upped the scale of suicide attacks in Borno State.
The Borno State Government has clarified the arrest and detention of the Chairman of Mafa local government area of the state, Shettima Lawan, who was falsely reported by some media outlets as having links with the Boko Haram terrorists.
No less than 15 Boko Haram fighters were reportedly killed when they engaged troops of the Nigerian Army in a fierce gun battle in Borno State on Friday.
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, has surfaced in a new video on Thursday to refute claims by the Nigerian government that the sect has been decimated and flushed out of the Sambisa forest.
