FLASH | Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Nigerian Army Base, Kill At Least 30 Soldiers

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Islamist militants have killed up to 30 soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday, in one of the biggest attacks of its kind this year.

Thursday’s attack by suspected members of Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) was on a base in Zari village in the north of Borno State.

In 2016 ISWA split from Boko Haram, the jihadist group which has killed more than 30,000 people in the region since 2009, when it launched an insurgency to create an Islamic caliphate.

The Zari attack highlights the challenge to secure the northeast, months ahead of a February election in which security looks set to be a campaign issue.

“The battle lasted for about two hours and our colleagues fought them but things became bad before the fighter jets arrived. We lost about 30 of our soldiers and about 10 were wounded,” said a military source who did not want to be named.

Another, who also did not want to be named, said 20 to 30 troops had been killed in a surprise attack. Details only emerged days later because it occurred in a remote area near the border with Niger.

The attack, in the Guzamala local government area of Borno, is the latest blow to Nigeria’s efforts to defeat insurgencies by Boko Haram and ISWA.

Earlier this week Reuters reported that Nigerian government officials had ordered thousands of displaced people to return to Guzamala, an area considered by aid agencies to be unsafe, as pressure mounts to show progress in the war against the insurgents ahead of the presidential election.

President Muhammadu Buhari, a former general, won the 2015 election after vowing to crush Islamist militants. He plans to seek a second term in February.

In July the fourth commander in 14 months was named to lead the fight against the militants after a number of embarrassing defeats, despite the government having said since late 2015 that the Islamists in the region had been defeated.

And 20 Nigerian soldiers went missing in mid-July following a clash with militants in the Bama area of Borno. Military sources say the troops are feared dead.

 

Reuters

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Buhari and his foot soldiers

A lot of things are happening in that north. Please let this madness remain there

e no go better for Buhari and APC.

coward burantashi is busy planning python dance 3 in the southeast that doesn't have any situation that requires even mobile police presence talk more of military!


Bokoharam is busy hunting his coward soldiers right into their barracks in the northeast and giving them bankaura dance and he cant do nothing about it!

Boko boys on the beat, wetin consigned we the portorportor republic and the almajiri boys doing the work of there evil god call Allah

Where is it difficult to find the root cause of this evil and put an end to it.

Buhari will deny their deaths...............as usual!


To sound politically correct.

North is still under colonization - Emir Sanusi

No date attached to this news?

But the lair said they have been technically defeated.

Who's defeating who now?

Mtchewww

They’ve only attacked soft target, no need to worry

the truth is that: the insurgency in the northeast will keep on waxing stronger as far as the people there are sympathetic to their cause.
are u telling me that the people there don't see them in their various neighbourhood as to tip-off the security?
this can't happen in the east.
i pity the innocent soldiers.

my heart bleeds for these soldiers that are used as pawns by the political elites.....

And some Imbeciles are at Aso Rock planning how to rig d nxt election. Nigeria is not worth dying for mbok.

This is SERIOUS!

chai

BH end is nigh!

Cant all these soldiers mobilise and overthrow this govt ni. Their ogas are in abj chopping arms money dem dey bush dey die like fowl. Smh

Technically defeated

Not surprised, when a president (buhari) decided to send soldiers out to hunt cattle rustlers instead of boko haram, cattles became more important than human beings in this administration.

The army on the other hand were busy helping Fulani herdsmen coordinate attacks and killing innocent Nigerians.

And then Soldiers were more interested in molesting, killing and fighting unarmed civilians on the streets of Nigeria without justice.

The police is killing innocent drivers over 50 naira bribe without justice.

Too many sins of the Nigerian Army!

Buhari is busy thinking about the security of his cows.. Asking you to farm, while buhari and his children are busy enjoying the best things of life, without a single sweat... And at the same time calling other youths lazy.

After 3 and half years, buhari has not been able to fish out those responsible for boko haram. Yet billions if Dollars have been spent on the fight against Boko haram.

Boko haram is just a political avenue for stealing money.

APC and Buhari are more interested in
Sen. Saraki.. Than delivery Good Governance to Nigerians.

Tinubu is busy nursing 2023 ambition.

Politicians are busy thinking about 2019 and their pockets.

Our youths are busy shouting sai baba, our youths are busy watching and celebrating criminals.

So you can see that No one cares about Nigeria.

Then what do you expect

One can summarily say that Nigeria is a failed state.

Everything is wrong with the very foundation of Nigeria itself.

This is why restructuring remains another option to help salvage this country, but buhari thinks otherwise.

If you die for this country, you died a foolish man.

I pity the soldiers that died in this attack, They died for nothing.. They wasted their God given lives for nothing.

The only people I feel for is their family, wives and children.

Because the army would deny they did not die as usual.... What a country!

If somebody most die, Let politicians lead!

Haaaaa! 30 husbands, brothers, uncles, sons - Lai Mohammed but you told us those guys are technically defeated.

Kíló selè gangan?

When Buhari was releasing them in droves, we shouted and cried. We even asked the CinC to explain what 'repentant' meant? Now look at how our 'Southern' soldiers are being killed on daily basis. And their Northern brothers are here doing 'bunkering business in the creeks.

The only language terrorists understand is 'Force'.

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Omooba77:
Where is it difficult to find the root cause of this evil and put an end to it.

It is rooted in fanaticism.

Smh.
When commander go tell u advance, a call would come in from above and tell you to retreat. Who is fooling who?
This insurgency will not end until those benefitting are brought to justice.. I can't say more.

Earlier this week Reuters reported that Nigerian government officials had ordered thousands of displaced people to return to Guzamala, an area considered by aid agencies to be unsafe, as pressure mounts to show progress in the war against the insurgents ahead of the presidential election.

People lost their life's because someone wants to score cheap political goals.

May God assist us in defeating these set of people