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Peace, Hope Blossom In Kukawa As IDPs Joyfully Return Home After MNJTF Success In a heartwarming turn of events, the Kukawa community in Borno State is experiencing a resurgence of peace and unity as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) joyfully return to their ancestral homes. The successful efforts of the Multi-National Joint Tasks Force (MNJTF) have paved the way for this long-awaited…

Fighter jets bombard ISWAP tax collectors in Kukawa

The Air Task Force of Operation Hadin Kai has eliminated tax collectors of the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, PRNigeria reports. It also gathered that the tax collectors, who always moved in groups, were sighted and targeted at different locations while mounting roadblocks to collect taxes and levies from commuters and merchants in…

Military airstrikes kill 28 ISWAP’s collaborators delivering logistics at Kukawa

At least, 28 terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) and their collaborators in the fishing businesses last Sunday met their waterloo, PRNigeria learnt from credible intelligence sources. The sources, who are deployed in the North East Theatre Command, in Borno State, said the ISWAP elements and their collaborators including their fishermen, were killed in…

Troops injured, ISWAP fighters killed in ‘deadly battle’ at Kukawa, Gudumbali

Some soldiers of the Nigerian military were feared ‘critically’ injured when terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) sect, on Friday, ambushed their convoy, in the North East. PRNigeria gathered that the Nigerian troops and their civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) counterparts, were heading to Kukawa town from Kauwa settlement in Borno State, for a raid…

Military thwarts Boko Haram/ISWAP attack on Kukawa community –DHQ

Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche Photo: twitter

The Defence Headquarters says military troops had successfully thwarted an attempt by the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists to scuttle the resettlement of Kukawa community in Borno on Tuesday. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Thursday, said the troops eliminated eight terrorists while…

ISWAP terrorists take hundreds hostage in Nigerian town: sources

A discarded Islamic State flag lies torn on the ground (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

Jihadists linked to the so-called Islamic State group have taken hundreds of hostages in a town in northeast Nigeria, locals, and militia sources said Wednesday.

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) “terrorists” late Tuesday overran Kukawa in the Lake Chad region, seizing people who had just returned…

10 Soldiers reported Missing after Boko Haram attacks Military Base

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10 soldiers have been reported missing after an attack on a military base in Kukawa in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents.

According to The Cable, gunmen in trucks believed to be insurgents attacked Kukawa, and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of the insurgent group, has taken responsibility for the attack.

A soldier who confirmed the attack said…

HORREUR ! NIGERIA : PIRE CARNAGE de BOKO HARAM depuis l’ARRIVÉE de BUHARI

Près de 150 morts: c’est l’effroyable bilan de trois attaques perpétrées par des membres présumés du groupe islamiste Boko Haram dans le nord-est du Nigeria, qui ont fait de mercredi la journée la plus sanglante depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Muhammadu Buhari.

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