{"id":200874,"date":"2020-03-12T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=200874"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:41:43","slug":"boko-haram-naf-neutralises-insurgents-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=200874","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: NAF neutralises insurgents in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised dozens of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) at Bula Korege on the fringes of the Sambisa forest in Borno State.<br \/>\nThe NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Wednesday in Abuja. said it also destroyed the insurgents\u2019 infrastructures.<br \/>\nDaramola maintained that the operation was conducted through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE under the auspices of \u201cOperation DECISIVE EDGE adding that sequel to credible intelligence reports, massive airstrikes were conducted in two waves of attack on March 6.<br \/>\nHe said the reports indicated that the BHTs had relocated some of their fighters to the settlement to reinforce the location preparatory to attacks on troops\u2019 locations and surrounding civilian settlements.<br \/>\n\u201cConsequently, the ATF dispatched an enhanced force package of several attack aircraft and a surveillance platform to engage the location.<br \/>\n\u201cOverhead the target area, significant activity of the fighters was observed in different parts of the settlements.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NAF fighter jets took turns in attacking the target area, neutralising many BHTs and destroying their structures in successive passes.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter the first wave of strikes, the terrorists reassembled at another part of the settlement where they were tracked and mopped-up,\u201d he said<br \/>\nDaramola assured that the NAF operating in concert with surface forces, would sustain its air campaign against the terrorists\u2019 hideouts to shape the battle space for the effective conduct of further ground and air operations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised dozens of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) at Bula Korege on the fringes of the Sambisa forest in Borno State. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Wednesday in Abuja. said it also destroyed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,37],"class_list":["post-200874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-boko-haram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}