Nigeria's army failed to protect Baga's civilians despite warnings that militants were going to attack, rights group Amnesty International has said.

Amnesty quotes an unnamed senior army source as saying the Islamist militants told residents about the offensive. Some reports say as many as 2,000 people died in Boko Haram's raids on the north-eastern town this month, but the government puts the toll at 150.

But the defence spokesman told the BBC there had been continous patrols.

"It is not true to say nothing was done," Maj Gen Chris Olukol
ade said in response to Amnesty International's allegations.

Boko Haram launched a full-scale insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009 to create an Islamic state.

But since the government declared a state of emergency 20 months ago in three north-eastern states to deal with it, Boko Haram has strengthened and now controls several towns, where it has declared a caliphate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31026557

Kudos

Nigerian soldiers r trying though but we want more sucess against the dreaded islamic sect