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.
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has raised an alarm over plans by alleged beneficiaries of corruption in the state's civil service to cause breach of peace and security.
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.
Children who escaped Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency now are dying of starvation in refugee camps in northeastern Nigeria's largest city as the government investigates the theft of food aid by officials.
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.
The Nigerian Army has alerted the public, particularly residents of Borno State, about the possibility of fleeing Boko Haram members boarding vehicles at unauthorised parks to avoid prying eyes of security personnel stationed at the parks.
