At least 240 Boko Haram fighters voluntarily surrendered to the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, on Monday after they came under intense pressure from troops.
The Nigerian government is not doing enough to protect displaced women and girls from sexual abuse and exploitation from officials in charge of Internally Displaced Persons camps across the Northeast region of the country.
The Nigerian army authorities have said that five Nigerian soldiers and four members of the civilian vigilante group were killed on Sunday in an ambush by Boko Haram terrorists in Damboa local government area of Borno State.
Barely 24 hours after the twin suicide bomb attacks that claimed 9 lives in Maiduguri, troops of the Nigerian Army on Sunday foiled an attempt by a suspected Boko Haram member to sneak into the Bakassi displaced persons camp with explosives.