{"id":60470,"date":"2018-11-11T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60470"},"modified":"2018-11-11T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:25:49","slug":"two-boko-haram-commanders-killed-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60470","title":{"rendered":"Two Boko Haram commanders killed in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigeria Army on Sunday said its troops have killed two Boko Haram commanders and reclaimed some communities in Borno State.<\/p>\n

The army disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The statement identified the Boko Haram commanders as: Abu Rajal and Tuja Sa\u2019inna Banki.<\/p>\n

The tweet reads, \u201cRecall that troops of 25 Task Force Brigade, Chibok and 28 Task Force Brigade, Damboa, embarked on Joint Clearance Operations from Gumsuri to Gambori in Borno on Nov. 9, 2018; they successfully cleared and liberated some villages.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports just reaching Nigerian Army Headquarters, confirmed that two high profile Boko Haram terrorists\u2019 commanders named Abu Rajal and Tuja Sa\u2019inna Banki were killed during the clearance operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, commended the gallant troops and urged them to carry out further incursions and clearance operations to ensure that the remnants of the insurgents were completely wiped out,\u201d it tweeted.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Army on Sunday said its troops have killed two Boko Haram commanders and reclaimed some communities in Borno State. The army disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. The statement identified the Boko Haram commanders as: Abu Rajal and Tuja Sa\u2019inna Banki. The tweet reads, \u201cRecall that troops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22905,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2383,5662,52],"class_list":["post-60470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boko-haram-insurgents","tag-buratai","tag-maiduguri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60470","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=60470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}