About 190 Nigerian troops were ambushed a few kilometers from Okene in Kogi state today. The attack took place around 6: 05 AM Nigerian time as militants cut through the convoy of Mali-bound Nigerian army peacekeepers traveling in three luxurious buses via Kaduna too Bamako, Mali. The militants decimated the convoy with the aid of IEDs planted on the highway and began firing on the troops afterwards.
The soldiers were under escort at the time and the military escorts alter returned fire, but the assailants who were parked on both sides of the highway escaped the scene after two soldiers had been killed and several others injured.
Nigerian Army spokesperson, Brigadier General Bola Koleosho confirmed to Saharareporters by phone that two soldiers were killed while the bomb explosion injured four others. The wounded soldiers are receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Center in Okene.
The attack is coming on the heels of disclosure by the Chief of Army Staff Azubuike Ihejirika last week that Mali trained Boko Haram sect militants have arrived Nigeria in large numbers to carry out attacks on various targets in the country.
Also a JTF source told SaharaReporters that Boko Haram elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau is currently in Mali receiving weapon training after sustaining injuries during a shoot out in Maiduguri last year. The source said Shekau now limps on one leg.

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Where there no military police and outriders considering the nos. Of troops.whats happening in our country .insider suspected

Definately an insider job

Dem never even reach Mali,dem don dey bomb dem..

ogbeche77: Dem never even reach Mali,dem don dey bomb dem..

What a shame on us.

70% of nigerian army is boko

Gboliwe:
What a shame on us.

i tell u

I miss Fela Kuti, all these soldier go soldier come news, i for dey hear am in music format.

e be like say some soldiers no wan go mali o

our boko brothers have insiders (sympathizers) from the Police, Navy, Army, Customs, Immigration, Universities and Corporate Organizations all over Nigeria..

this is really disgraceful! if something like this can occur right inside our domain, i wonder what will happen in Mali.

DivideUs: e be like say some soldiers no wan go mali o

Maybe na conspiracy...one can never tell... It's not easy to go to war...I wonder if Nigeria is worth dying for..

Okene don turn Bamako be dat!
Moreover, that is a omen of 'fire on the mountain'!
Perhaps they connived among themselves feigning waylaid with the bombs they are to carry to Mali. Nigerian soldiers wise, they dont wanna go to Mali to die.

Nigerian army peacekeepers traveling in three luxurious buses via Kaduna too Bamako, Mali

That is what corruption can reduce us to. That over 1 trillion naira was budgeted for defense alone in the current fiscal year, and our military of 21st century will still be traveling in an Ifesinachi kind of luxury buses beggars belief What happens to the so called transport planes, war planes and the likes. I have completely lost faith in this entity called Nigeria.

A whole national Army couldn't show a reprisal counter attack. Let me check again if it is the police and not the army that was attacked. If na to slap and punish civilians(students) dem go de do like say dem different from the civilians.

alpha conde: A batch of Nigeria army troop deployed to mali has been ambushed @ okene.
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These Boko boys get morale o. See mind.

So who did this one now?

Iz it the igala, ebira? Yoruba? Or the normal blame-takers on nairaland, the hausas

lacasa: So who did this one now?

Iz it the igala, ebira? Yoruba? Or the normal blame-takers on nairaland, the hausas

is U that we should be asking

Kogi is gradually turning to another Bornu state. And after some few taughts I have to conclude that this is an insider job. Sheik Gumi must have a hand here

If soldiers are nt safe whats our fate?

Infiltration

Abeg you guyz shud stop addressing those cowards as soldiers, they are not diff from Man o War...imagine how can ordinary militants attacked a whole giant of africa soldiers and wasted their lives,things that would never happened to other countries security men.

So these are the disorganised and clueless clowns going to Mali to disgrace themselves? No alertness, no intelligence, no competence, nothing!

They only know how to show their supposed 'strength' against defenceless civilians. . .bullying and dehumanising innocent Nigerians for no reason. When the chips are down, they expose how cowardly and poorly trained they are. Pathetic bunch.

cyril83: Abeg you guyz shud stop addressing those cowards as soldiers, they are not diff from Man o War...imagine how can ordinary militant attacked a whole giant of africa and wasted their lives,things that would never happened to other countries security men.

i think i totally agree with you. a whole bunch of soldiers war ready....were attacked and they didnt kill any of the militants? shame!!!!!

This is war. The battle line has already been drawn the very day the president agreed to send troops to mali . We should prepare ourselves cos boko jihadist allies have added us to their enemies list.

Giant Of Africa... hehehe.. Our Soldiers Self No Get Mind?? Nna Mehn!!

anthony86: This is war. The battle line has already been drawn the very day the president agreed to send troops to mali . We should prepare ourselves cos boko jihadist allies have added us to their enemies list.

War?? LOL!! War My Nyansh!!

JUMONG must b involved

this insurgence is gradualy moving southward. everyone should be more vigilant .