{"id":73746,"date":"2018-12-28T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73746"},"modified":"2018-12-28T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:27:13","slug":"army-speaks-on-boko-haram-taking-over-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73746","title":{"rendered":"Army speaks on Boko Haram taking over Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigerian Army on Friday said Boko Haram terrorists had not taken over Baga town in Borno, contrary to reports in some sections of the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaga town is not in the hands of the Boko Haram. They contested it (taking the over the border town) but they lost the contest,\u2019\u2019 Maj.-Gen. Lamidi Adeosun, the Chief of Training and Operations disclosed on the sidelines of a news conference in Maiduguri, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

Adeosun, however, confirmed that as at Thursday, troops engaged the terrorists in a fierce battle in the efforts to repel them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey terrorised the town and attacked the Headquarters of the 7 Brigade of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) at about 7 p.m. on Wednesday,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Giving an update on Thursday, the army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman confirmed that a naval officer was killed as troops repelled the attack.<\/p>\n

Usman added the Nigerian Air Force component of the Operation Lafia Dole was mobilised to engage the fleeing terrorists.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Army on Friday said Boko Haram terrorists had not taken over Baga town in Borno, contrary to reports in some sections of the media. \u201cBaga town is not in the hands of the Boko Haram. They contested it (taking the over the border town) but they lost the contest,\u2019\u2019 Maj.-Gen. Lamidi Adeosun, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60648,"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":[9414,37,6772],"class_list":["post-73746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baga","tag-boko-haram","tag-nigeria-army"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73746","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=73746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}