₦airaland Forum

Nigerian military says it has rescued 25 more children and women from Boko Haram as part of its ongoing campaign to attack and destroy the armed group’s camps in the northeast.

Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said many Boko Haram fighters were killed in a gun battle on Wednesday morning. One soldier was killed and five others were wounded, Usman said.

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report.

About 700 children and women have been rescued in the past week as soldiers supported by air raids have deployed on foot into the Sambisa Forest, the last stronghold of Nigeria’s home-grown armed group.

Last week the army said they rescued 293 girls and women from the forest.

It is unclear if those rescued include some of the schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago from Chibok town. Some 219 remain missing.

According to human rights group Amnesty International, more that 5,500 civilians have been killed and more than 1.5 million people, including 800,000 children, have fled their homes due to the violence in the country’s northeast.

Boko Haram, designated by the US as a “terrorist” organisation, has been fighting since 2009 to establish sharia law in all 36 states of Nigeria, which is roughly equally divided between a mainly Christian south and a largely Muslim north.

http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-troops-free-more-women-children-from-sambisa/

From boohariz den
He's d main brain behind boko haram
Law of karma will come visiting soon
I pray change chanters and apc and Buhari take it in good fate


Say no to "change"
We nid transformation
I pray and hope we won't regret voting out transformation

Good development.. Jonathan won't ruin this country and turn it upside down before he finally leaves power.

Operation free women. Boko haram, another name for sexual immorality!

OREMUSSANCTUS:
From boohariz den
He's d main brain behind boko haram
Law of karma will come visiting soon
I pray change chanters and apc and Buhari take it in good fate


Say no to "change"
We nid transformation
I pray and hope we won't regret voting out transformation

you no dey tire?

Wetin concern Buhari? Why haven't we heard the confessions/revelations of those boko haramites captured and interrogated? Una just dey deceive una sef like the man wey dey omenka profile

#Babamustfulfilhispromises

Boohary should just give it up.

His boys are down.

UrennaNkoli:
Good development.. Jonathan won't ruin this country and turn it upside down before he finally leaves power.

The truth will surface soon and we will all ask for forgiveness

No Chibok girls yet?
Imaging no Sekau don release anything since after election......hmmm. God dey

midolian:
you no dey tire?

Wetin concern Buhari? Why haven't we heard the confessions/revelations of those boko haramites captured and interrogated? Una just dey deceive una sef like the man wey dey omenka profile

Yeah, just like the pic, their delusions is likely gonna turn fatal.

omenka:
Yeah, just like the pic, their delusions is likely gonna turn fatal.

God knows the truth lalasticalala

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Say no to "change"
We nid transformation
I pray and hope we won't regret voting out transformation

We voted out 'zeroformation'. There was no transformation.

We will only regret if Buhari falls below zero