In loving memory of the brave Men who have sacrificed their lives in keeping our great nation Nigeria safe, may they be honored and never forgotten.

1. LIEUTENANT S K LEO: He was killed in early July 2014. The late Leo was set to marry on the 20th of August, 2014 in Kaduna, his state of origin. Reportedly a former student of ECWA Staff School i...n Jos, Plateau State, he left the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria when he was a 2nd year student of history to attend the Nigerian Defence Academy

2. CAPTAIN KENNETH ONUBAH
He was from Ifite-Oraifite in Anambra State. He was killed in an ambush by Boko Haram in May 2014. The late Captain Onubah.Onubah was buried with his late colleagues.

3. LANCE CORPORAL DAVID USMAN
Usman was killed on the 18th of May, 2013 by Boko Haram at the Nigeria-Chad border. On the 8th of June, 2014, his mother, 55-year-old Mrs. Sarai Usman cried out that the Nigerian Federal Government has neglected them. In an interview with Punch, she narrated her experience. The late Usman was aged 37 when he was killed and he left two children and a wife as at the time he was killed. The first child was aged three while the second one was six months. His wife was six months pregnant and he never saw his son before Boko Haram killed him.

4. MAJOR SAMUEL JEGA KANADY DALAKY
The late Major Dalaky was killed in April 2013 in Yobe State. Popularly known as Major Dalaky amongst his friends and colleagues, he hailed from Gombe State. An old boy of the Nigerian Military School, NMS, Zaria, he was a member of the 50th Regular Course at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna State. He was survived by two children and his wife. His family spoke out against any amnesty offer to the Boko Haram terrorists.

5. MAJOR ABDULLAHI T. FAMBIYA
Fambiya, an indigene of Gwoza in Borno State was reputedly one of the very best of the Nigerian Army Special Forces. He reportedly volunteered to join the hunt for Shekau since he was from Gwoza Local Government and he grew up with the knowledge of the Gwoza Hills where Shekau and his lieutenants were hiding. On the 26th of June, 2013, a unit from the Nigerian Army Special Forces launched what was described as a ‘well-coordinated assault’ on the location of Shekau and his ilk following the identification of the area by the Joint Task Force (JTF). Shekau was with his lieutenants during the assault but it was not before long that the army unit ran into some problems and before the smoke could clear, Fambiya and other soldiers had been killed.

JULY 2013: At the burial of Fambiya and others at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja on Thursday, 25th July, 2013. A total of 2 majors and 13 soldiers were buried that day. They died during Operation Boyona and United Nations Operation (UNAMID, Darfur, Sudan). The soldiers killed by Boko Haram were in both Yobe and Borno States in the northeastern region of the country.

6. MAJOR ABDULLAHI KANOMA
7. STAFF SERGEANT KEKU ADEBAYO
8. CORPORAL AHMED USMAN
9. CORPORAL MATTHEW ADE
10. LANCE CORPORAL ADAMU IBRAHIM
11. LANCE CORPORAL SULEIMAN GIMBA
12. LANCE CORPORAL SADUAKI SALISU
13. LANCE CORPORAL OLUSOLA AJANI
14. PRIVATE ZAKARIYA DAUDA
15. PRIVATE DANIEL KANTONA
16. PRIVATE NYA BASSEY
17. PRIVATE BASSEY EMMANUEL
18. PRIVATE ENYENIHI EFFIONG

19. COLONEL KABIRU SALISU
The late Colonel Kabiru was killed on the 7th of April 2014 when his armoured personnel carrier (APC) was attacked by Boko Haram militants. A respected troop commander, his vehicle came under a barrage of artillery fire, burst into flames killing him and others in the vehicle. The death of Colonel Kabiru raised concerns over the safety of the equipment supplied to Nigerian soldiers to combat Boko Haram. About the same time, over 200 wives of Nigerian soldiers of the 103 Battalion in Enugu took to the streets to protest the posting of their husbands to Borno and Yobe states

20. LIEUTENANT ODUSHINA OLUWAFEMI
He was killed on Tuesday, the 13th of May, 2014. Boko Haram ambushed the late Oluwafemi with his troops around the Chibok area where they had gone to search for and rescue the abducted Chibok girls. Following his death, the news got to the military camp and reportedly led to a mutiny by some soldiers of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army against the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major-General Abubakar Mohammed who was then redeployed. Lt. Odushina Oluwafemi was an old student of the Air Force Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos State. He served with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces in Darfur and later went to Pakistan for an additional training course. In March 2014, he was deployed to Maiduguri where he was killed defending the nation’s integrity.

21. CAPTAIN BENJAMIN TOYIRING SULE
He was killed on the 4th of August, 2014 while in the line of duty during an ambush by Boko Haram in Bama, Borno State. He married his bride in November 2013 and was posted to Borno in May 2014. Sule is survived by parents, siblings and his wife.

22. CORPORAL DUKE EBOSELE
Ebosele was killed on Sunday, 3rd of August 2014 while fighting Boko Haram terrorists. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and three boys.
Ebosele and colleagues at a United Nations mission.The late Ebosele with his wife, Mary, now widowed with three kids.Corporal Duke Ebosele with his sons (aged 7, 4 and 3).Ebosele with wife and kids.

23. UMAR ABUBAKAR (of the Nigerian Air Force, he was beheaded by Boko Haram

24. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ONYEKA NWAKILE (Nigerian Air Force)
Nwakile died in July 2014 when a Mi-35 helicopter of the Nigerian Air Force crashed in Bama, Borno State. The Nigerian military said the chopper was on a training mission. Nwakile was the only one who died in the crash while Flight Lieutenant NM Halilu, the co-pilot, and Warrant Officer Augustine Nwanonenyi, the aircraft technician, survived. The photos of the late Nwakile are below:
-In July 2014, it was reported that at least 15 Nigerian soldiers were ambushed and killed when 200 troops mobilized to take over the Damboa military base from Boko Haram.

25. Lt Mayowa Areago (Nigerian Army)
Shot on the 9th of November, 2014 while retreating from a mission to fight the Boko Haram in Borno state. He graduated in 2012 from the Nigerian Defence Academy, and was immediately posted to fight Boko Haharam.

Nigerian soldiers have also reported to have killed hundreds of Boko Haram suspects and they have been accused of human rights abuse by Amnesty International but the Nigerian military has denied these claims.

It is hoped that a final and lasting solution will be found to this lingering menace.

It is hoped that the government will set up National Memorials in their honor & duly compensate their families.The labor of Nigerian heroes should never be in vain


**NB :This is a partial list of Nigerian military officers & men who lost their lives in the line of fire against Boko Haram onslaught.


http://www.cknnigeria.com/2014/10/they-died-fighting-for-nigerias-safety.html

Alright. Rip best men

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In loving memory of the brave Men who have sacrificed their lives in keeping our great nation Nigeria safe, may they be honored and never forgotten.

1. LIEUTENANT S K LEO: He was killed in early July 2014. The late Leo was set to marry on the 20th of August, 2014 in Kaduna, his state of origin. Reportedly a former student of ECWA Staff School i...n Jos, Plateau State, he left the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria when he was a 2nd year student of history to attend the Nigerian Defence Academy

2. CAPTAIN KENNETH ONUBAH
He was from Ifite-Oraifite in Anambra State. He was killed in an ambush by Boko Haram in May 2014. The late Captain Onubah.Onubah was buried with his late colleagues.

3. LANCE CORPORAL DAVID USMAN
Usman was killed on the 18th of May, 2013 by Boko Haram at the Nigeria-Chad border. On the 8th of June, 2014, his mother, 55-year-old Mrs. Sarai Usman cried out that the Nigerian Federal Government has neglected them. In an interview with Punch, she narrated her experience. The late Usman was aged 37 when he was killed and he left two children and a wife as at the time he was killed. The first child was aged three while the second one was six months. His wife was six months pregnant and he never saw his son before Boko Haram killed him.

4. MAJOR SAMUEL JEGA KANADY DALAKY
The late Major Dalaky was killed in April 2013 in Yobe State. Popularly known as Major Dalaky amongst his friends and colleagues, he hailed from Gombe State. An old boy of the Nigerian Military School, NMS, Zaria, he was a member of the 50th Regular Course at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna State. He was survived by two children and his wife. His family spoke out against any amnesty offer to the Boko Haram terrorists.

5. MAJOR ABDULLAHI T. FAMBIYA
Fambiya, an indigene of Gwoza in Borno State was reputedly one of the very best of the Nigerian Army Special Forces. He reportedly volunteered to join the hunt for Shekau since he was from Gwoza Local Government and he grew up with the knowledge of the Gwoza Hills where Shekau and his lieutenants were hiding. On the 26th of June, 2013, a unit from the Nigerian Army Special Forces launched what was described as a ‘well-coordinated assault’ on the location of Shekau and his ilk following the identification of the area by the Joint Task Force (JTF). Shekau was with his lieutenants during the assault but it was not before long that the army unit ran into some problems and before the smoke could clear, Fambiya and other soldiers had been killed.

JULY 2013: At the burial of Fambiya and others at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja on Thursday, 25th July, 2013. A total of 2 majors and 13 soldiers were buried that day. They died during Operation Boyona and United Nations Operation (UNAMID, Darfur, Sudan). The soldiers killed by Boko Haram were in both Yobe and Borno States in the northeastern region of the country.

6. MAJOR ABDULLAHI KANOMA
7. STAFF SERGEANT KEKU ADEBAYO
8. CORPORAL AHMED USMAN
9. CORPORAL MATTHEW ADE
10. LANCE CORPORAL ADAMU IBRAHIM
11. LANCE CORPORAL SULEIMAN GIMBA
12. LANCE CORPORAL SADUAKI SALISU
13. LANCE CORPORAL OLUSOLA AJANI
14. PRIVATE ZAKARIYA DAUDA
15. PRIVATE DANIEL KANTONA
16. PRIVATE NYA BASSEY
17. PRIVATE BASSEY EMMANUEL
18. PRIVATE ENYENIHI EFFIONG

19. COLONEL KABIRU SALISU
The late Colonel Kabiru was killed on the 7th of April 2014 when his armoured personnel carrier (APC) was attacked by Boko Haram militants. A respected troop commander, his vehicle came under a barrage of artillery fire, burst into flames killing him and others in the vehicle. The death of Colonel Kabiru raised concerns over the safety of the equipment supplied to Nigerian soldiers to combat Boko Haram. About the same time, over 200 wives of Nigerian soldiers of the 103 Battalion in Enugu took to the streets to protest the posting of their husbands to Borno and Yobe states

20. LIEUTENANT ODUSHINA OLUWAFEMI
He was killed on Tuesday, the 13th of May, 2014. Boko Haram ambushed the late Oluwafemi with his troops around the Chibok area where they had gone to search for and rescue the abducted Chibok girls. Following his death, the news got to the military camp and reportedly led to a mutiny by some soldiers of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army against the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major-General Abubakar Mohammed who was then redeployed. Lt. Odushina Oluwafemi was an old student of the Air Force Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos State. He served with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces in Darfur and later went to Pakistan for an additional training course. In March 2014, he was deployed to Maiduguri where he was killed defending the nation’s integrity.

21. CAPTAIN BENJAMIN TOYIRING SULE
He was killed on the 4th of August, 2014 while in the line of duty during an ambush by Boko Haram in Bama, Borno State. He married his bride in November 2013 and was posted to Borno in May 2014. Sule is survived by parents, siblings and his wife.

22. CORPORAL DUKE EBOSELE
Ebosele was killed on Sunday, 3rd of August 2014 while fighting Boko Haram terrorists. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and three boys.
Ebosele and colleagues at a United Nations mission.The late Ebosele with his wife, Mary, now widowed with three kids.Corporal Duke Ebosele with his sons (aged 7, 4 and 3).Ebosele with wife and kids.

23. UMAR ABUBAKAR (of the Nigerian Air Force, he was beheaded by Boko Haram

24. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ONYEKA NWAKILE (Nigerian Air Force)
Nwakile died in July 2014 when a Mi-35 helicopter of the Nigerian Air Force crashed in Bama, Borno State. The Nigerian military said the chopper was on a training mission. Nwakile was the only one who died in the crash while Flight Lieutenant NM Halilu, the co-pilot, and Warrant Officer Augustine Nwanonenyi, the aircraft technician, survived. The photos of the late Nwakile are below:
-In July 2014, it was reported that at least 15 Nigerian soldiers were ambushed and killed when 200 troops mobilized to take over the Damboa military base from Boko Haram.

25. Lt Mayowa Areago (Nigerian Army)
Shot on the 9th of November, 2014 while retreating from a mission to fight the Boko Haram in Borno state. He graduated in 2012 from the Nigerian Defence Academy, and was immediately posted to fight Boko Haharam.

Nigerian soldiers have also reported to have killed hundreds of Boko Haram suspects and they have been accused of human rights abuse by Amnesty International but the Nigerian military has denied these claims.

It is hoped that a final and lasting solution will be found to this lingering menace.

It is hoped that the government will set up National Memorials in their honor & duly compensate their families.The labor of Nigerian heroes should never be in vain


**NB :This is a partial list of Nigerian military officers & men who lost their lives in the line of fire against Boko Haram onslaught.


http://www.cknnigeria.com/2014/10/they-died-fighting-for-nigerias-safety.html

RIP to the fallen heroes we gladly appreciate the efforts you have put in, in keeping our nation safe

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