Nine soldiers and 56 insurgents might have been killed in the attempt of the Boko Haram sect to capture Maiduguri on Sunday morning.

The attack on the town began at about 12.30am and could not be totally suppressed until about 11am.

It was gathered that hundreds of heavily armed insurgents tried to gain entrance into the town through Jinikin-Moronti, on the road linking Maiduguri to Damaturu along the Jos-Kano highway and close to two major housing estates, 1000 and 707.

The suspected terrorists were confronted by the soldiers and other security operatives of the 33 Battalion Barrack at the entrance to the town.

The battle initially raged from 12.30am to about 3.30am, when the attack was thought to have subsided.

Other security operatives and members of the youth vigilance group joined in the exercise as the insurgents were successfully repelled.

Just when everyone thought the insurgents had retreated, the militants came back with renewed vigour, throwing the residents of the state capital into panic.

As the confusion deepened, the residents could not venture out of their houses, let alone going to church for the Sunday worship service.

The second phase of the gunfight between the soldiers and members of the terror group, which started around 5.40am, was successfully repelled at 11am.

Heavy shelling ricocheted all around the town as the military had to deployed both ground and aerial battle to suppress the determined insurgents.

At the end of the siege, nine soldiers were believed to have been felled as the insurgents were reduced by 56 men.

They were said to have equally lost in equipment, three armoured tanks and two Hilux jeeps to the attack.

Some members of the youth vigilance group, who were involved in repelling the attack, revealed that nine soldiers, who were killed in the attack, were conveyed by a military patrol van from the scene of the attack to the Garrison Command along the Pompomari area near the Military Anti-Bomb Squad around 12.30pm.

Air Force surveillance jet continued to hover over the town as some pockets of insurgents, who were believed to be in the town, were still been trailed.

A member of the youth vigilance group, Modu Baana, who spoke to journalists, said, “It was around 2am when we were alerted of the deadly move by the terrorists to enter Maiduguri through the Jimtilo outskirts. We learnt that over 100 heavily armed men with armoured tanks and Hilux jeeps were about coming into the town.”

Baana added that the fighter jets helped the ground troops as the combined operation scattered the insurgents, forcing some to flee into the neighbourhood having been overwhelmed.
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The attack by suspected members of the Boko Haram on Maiduguri has been foiled by soldiers, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.
However, the neighbouring town of Monguno appears to have been taken over by the insurgents who are also said to have taken over the military barracks there, a senior soldier in the state capital told PREMIUM TIMES.
As if attacking from various fronts, soldiers were also battling the rampaging insurgents in Konduga, a town 35km from Maiduguri.
The military is expected to release details of the attacks after the battles are completed.
Our source said scores of people including soldiers and insurgents have been killed on the outskirts of Maiduguri since the current battles started late Saturday night.
Confirming the fall of Monguno to the insurgents, our source said “we have decimated the idiots (from Maiduguri) but Monguno has fallen”.
He said the military casualty from the Maiduguri and Monguno battles had been recorded, but would not provide details.
Already, the Army has imposed a curfew on Maiduguri.
The 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri on Sunday announced the 24-hour curfew following the attacks.
The Spokesperson of the Division, Sani Usman, said this in a statement he signed and issued in Maiduguri.
“Be informed of the imposition of a curfew on Maiduguri immediately,” the spokesperson said as quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria.
“The curfew will remain till further notice.”

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Cutehector4u:
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simplemach:
God bless the Nigerian soldier and keep the eye of APC away from them.

okpamson15:
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dayo23:
wetin com concern APC now? All these jonathan boiz na wa o, I wonder wetin him use take brainwash una! Rubbish

dre11:


Why not go to the war front and get their images
The press that where there gave u information and you're denying it

Tinubu:


Why don't you go to Maiduguri and take the pishure yourself?


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