The state Police spokesman, Victor Isuku, said in a statement that a female suicide bomber, detonated an explosive strapped on her at a military checkpoint just in front of an internally displaced persons camp.
Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, Abubakar Njodi, has vowed that the university will not close down in spite of Monday’s bomb blasts that led to the death of a professor and at least three others.
Nigerian troops participating in ongoing clearance operation of Boko Haram terrorists in the North East say they have recovered the bodies of some of its personnel who were hitherto declared missing in action.
Repentant Boko Haram fighters have called on their former colleagues who are still in the Sambisa forest to surrender their arms to military authorities and embrace peace.
Lucky Irabor, a Major General and the Theatre Commander of the counter-insurgency operation of the Nigerian military in the North East codenamed “Operation Lafiya Dole”, has disclosed that the Army arrested a total 1,240 suspected Boko Haram terrorists after the capture of Sambisa forest, the major stronghold of the insurgents.
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.
