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Boko Haram: Video on 2000 policemen dropping their weapons in protest fake — police

Godsgift Onyedinefu The Nigerian Police Force has stated that there was no protest by 2000 policemen deployed to the North east to complement the military in the fight against insurgency. The police dismissed a video on social media on “about 2000 MOPOL undergoing training for boko haram drop their weapons in protest’’ fake, doctored to…

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Boko Haram: No missing policemen but recalcitrant personnel leaving training base–Military

  Senator Iroegbu  The Nigerian military has offered a clear explanation on a news report that over 150 among the 2000 Policemen deployed to fight Boko Haram insurgents in the North East, absconded from their counter-insurgency military training exercise. According to the the military, the reported missing policemen are only indisciplined lots who often abscond…

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Breaking: Nigerian military suspends UNICEF activities in North East for ‘sabotage’ 

•Engaged in espionage, clandestine activities  Senator Iroegbu  The Nigerian military throough Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole has suspended the activities of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the Boko Haram terrorists affected parts of the North East for alleged espionage activities that have sabotaged the counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency efforts. The Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command,…

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Metele Attack: Army secretly buried 100 soldiers killed by Boko Haram

Ola Akiotu The Nigerian Army has reportedly organised a private burial for over 100 officers and soldiers killed during terrorist attacks on N 157 Task Force Battalion Metele, Borno State, last month. Punch was informed by one of the widows of the officers that the burial would take place in Maiduguri on Friday. It was,…

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Nigerian Army uncovers new terrorist group in North East

The Nigerian Army has announced the discovery of a new terrorist group, Jama’atu Nus’ratul-Islami Wal-Muslimina, operating in the North East, which “portends grave danger to Nigeria’s national security.” The army said it had also identified the leader of the new group to be Abul-Fadl Iyad Gali. The Nigerian Army Headquarters stated this on its official Facebook page,…

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Boko Haram: People in need of food assistance in the North East reduced drastically—FAO

Senator Iroegbu  The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has said the number of people in need of food assistance has reduced in the Boko Haram terrorists ravaged region of North East Nigeria. FAO, quoting the latest results of food security analysis, obtained during the October 2018 cadre harmonise analysis, said the…

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Boko haram reportedly kills 16 farmers in Borno, dozens missing

Boko Haram jihadists have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, militia and residents said on Wednesday. The civilian militia fighting the Islamists found 15 bodies in fields around Kazaa and Daraa villages, five kilometres (three miles) outside the garrison town of Monguno…

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