Military authorities have confirmed that a Brigade Commander and some soldiers were selling arms and ammunition to Boko Haram terrorists, says Lucky Irabor, Operation Lafiya Dole Theater Commander in the Northeast.
The Department of State Services, DSS, has announced the arrest of one Idris Audu, a suspected Boko Haram terrorist who specialized in making Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, for the terrorist group.
The www.icirnigeria.org has learnt that in spite of improved security in the northeast, particularly in Borno and Yobe States, internally displaced persons, IDPs, who had returned home are still reluctant to go back to the farmlands they left in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency for fear of landmines and further attacks by the terrorists.
The Nigeria Air Force, NAF, says it has destroyed another Boko Haram camp in an air strike in northern Borno, just few days after it announced that it killed 300 insurgents, and wounded Abubakar Shekau, their leader, in an air raid on Sambisa forest.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his willingness to swap Boko Haram prisoners for the Chibok girls as demanded by the insurgents, stressing he would do all he could to rescue the Chibok school girls abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group two years ago.
The Nigerian military has said that several Boko Haram leaders were killed and others, including the presumed leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, wounded in a raid on Sambisa Forest last Friday by the Nigerian Air Force.
