Yesterday was Day 12

158 Boko Haram Abductees Reunite With Families
http://www.channelstv.com/2015/02/19/158-boko-haram-abductees-reunite-with-families/

Day 13

At least 21 people were killed as suspected Boko Haram fighters renewed armed attacks on three villages in northeast Nigerian state of Borno, witnesses and security sources said.

Militants stormed the villages Friday near Chibok Town, where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted 10 months ago in the southern part of Borno State, shooting sporadically, Dauda Ali, a Chibok resident who witnessed the attack, told Xinhua via telephone.

"Only three villages were attacked but the losses here are humongous. The insurgents fired shots into people's houses, razed people's houses and commercial centers," said Ali, who is a parent of one of the missing schoolgirls.

According to him, more than 10 people were killed in Gatamarwa, one of the villages attacked by suspected Boko Haram fighters.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/boko-haram-renews-attack-in-nigeria-21-killed-115022100055_1.html

This proves that whilst a lot of progress is being made, Boko Haram are still dangerous.

Day 14 and. Day 15

Boko Haram using suicide bombers to cause pain.

https://www.nairaland.com/2161116/suicide-bomber-kills-herself-five

maclatunji:
Day 14 and. Day 15

Boko Haram using suicide bombers to cause pain.

https://www.nairaland.com/2161116/suicide-bomber-kills-herself-five

. The military for the first time is on offensive but intel to stop suicide attack is lacking
The gud old days are back

alizenbohr:
Good job maclatunji.
Got some pix courtesy of Samueldo here:

https://www.nairaland.com/2154585/nigeria-military-operations-clear-11#30855974

I'm honored

Day 16 and Day 17

Suicide bombings in Yobe and Kano. Moping up operations by military in Bags

http://nigerianpilot.com/12-killed-kano-motor-park-explosion/

http://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/2015/02/23/photos-terrorists-disguised-as-women-apprehended-in-baga/

Day 18

Suicide bombings in Jos and Biu

http://www.punchng.com/news/10-die-in-fresh-suicide-bombing-in-biu/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177601-multiple-explosions-rock-jos-motor-park-many-feared-dead.html

Days 19, 20 and 21.


Thousands March Against Boko Haram in Cameroon
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2015/02/28/thousands-protest-boko-haram-support-army-in-cameroon

Crowd kills girl suspected to be suicide bomber in Nigeria
www.newsadvance.com/news/world/wire/crowd-kills-girl-suspected-to-be-suicide-bomber-in-nigeria/article_413baeae-b7ad-5084-933c-572c4956907c.html?mode=jqm

Military takes delivery of two jets loaded with weapons

www.nigeriatell.com/news/military-takes-delivery-of-two-jets-loaded-with-weapons

Days 23, 24 and 25

No Slowing Down Until Victory, Military Assures Nigerians

http://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/04/slowing-victory-military-assures-nigerians/

Day 26

The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday that Nigerian troops were now in full control of Mafa, Borno, after clearing terrorists from the town on Wednesday evening.

http://www.informationng.com/2015/03/troops-gain-full-control-of-mafa-in-borno-dhq.html

Day 27

Borno State Governor, Mr. Kashim Shetima has applauded the gallantry of officers and men of the Nigerian military in recapturing some of the areas which were overran by Boko Haram insurgents.

The governor gave this commendation while exchanging views with newsmen in Gombe on Friday. He restated the commitment of his government to accord the military all the moral and logistic support that would enable them accomplish the set goals.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/03/06/borno-governor-hails-military-for-routing-insurgents-from-captured-territories/

Days 28. 29, 30

Children freed from Boko Haram forgot their names
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31815810

Days 31 and 32

Hundreds of foreign mercenaries from the former Soviet Union and South Africa have been drafted in by Nigeria to battle the radical Islamist group Boko Haram and plug the capability gap in the Nigerian military’s offensive, according to diplomatic sources and experts.

http://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-foreign-mercenaries-fighting-boko-haram-313312

ISIL Accepts Boko Haram's Pledge of Allegiance

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/isil-accepts-boko-haram-pledge-allegiance-150312201038730.html

Who is the moderator of this section? Is this the best place you are suppose to keep this informative thread? God dey see us Oo.

Days 33 and 34

oko Haram Islamists have set fire to homes in
Nigeria’s northeast town of Bama that are under
their control, forcing residents to flee as troops
advance to recapture it, witnesses said Sunday.
The Islamists on Saturday told residents of
Bama, 70 kilometres (37.5 miles) southeast of
Maiduguri, to evacuate before setting fire to
many homes as Nigerian troops inched closer in
a bid to retake the town, residents told AFP.
Women and children fleeing from Boko Haram

attacks sit at Kabalewa Refugees Camp, Diffa in
Niger Republic, on March 13, 2015.


Governor of northeastern Nigerian Borno State Kashim
Shettima recently visited refugee camps where
Nigerians fleeing from Boko Haram Islamists
attacks are sheltered in Diffa province of Niger
Republic. More than 13,000 people have been
killed and some 1.5 million made homeless in the
Boko Haram conflict since 2009, while recent
cross-border attacks from Boko Haram bases in
Nigeria on neighbouring countries have increased
security fears.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/boko-haram-burns-borno-town-as-troops-advance-residents

According to reports, the newly formed partnership between the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) and Boko Haram might already be underway.

A Twitter handle linked with ISIS tweeted in support of Boko Haram yesterday, March 14, announcing that the Nigerian group had reclaimed Gamboru in Borno State from troops deployed there.

Source: http://pulse.ng/local/boko-haram-isis-shows-support-claims-nigerian-terrorists-have-recaptured-gamboru-id3569251.html

Day 35

Chad and Niger launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram in Nigeria on Sunday, intensifying a regional offensive designed to defeat the Islamist insurgents, military sources said.

http://m.france24.com/en/20150308-boko-haram-nigeria-chad-niger-joint-offensive/

Nice thread

Day 36

Troops finally succeeded in routing terrorists from Bama in Borno state.

The mission which was accomplished with massive casualty inflicted on the terrorists before the remnant finally fled the town lasted days of careful manoeuvre and efforts to scale series of obstacles and land mines planted by terrorists who have occupied the town for months.

The Chadian partners in the Multinational Joint Task Force have been mandated to undertake a pursuit of the terrorists who are believed to be heading for the borders after being dislodged from Bama.

http://defenceinfo.mil.ng/troops-finally-rout-terrorists-from-bama-and-last-stronghold-in-yobe/

Good job, keep it up

Days 37 and 38

An analysis on South African mercenaries fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21646809-south-africa-struggles-vain-ban-soldiers-fortune-leash-dogs-war

Days 39 and 40

Boko Haram slaughter 'wives' in Bama

http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-slaughter-wives-ne-nigeria-witnesses-140826758.html

Mass Grave Discovered in Damasak by Nigerien and Chadian Troops

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/20/africa/nigeria-mass-grave/

nice one bro

Nice

Days 41 and 42

Chadian and Nigerien troops fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East are reportedly begging their Nigerian counterparts to take over towns recaptured from the sect.

Nigerian authorities had announced that troops had recaptured all towns occupied by members of the terrorist group in Adamawa and Yobe states, remaining Borno, the last of the three north-eastern states mostly affected by the insurgency.

A report by The New York Times on Friday, entitled ‘Foreign troops beg Nigerian soldiers to occupy recaptured towns,’ said foreign troops had led journalists on a tour of the liberated towns without Nigerian troops on the ground.

Chadian authorities were reported to be angered by “the near-total absence of cooperation from the Nigerians in a crucial regional battle.”

The report said Chadian soldiers were wondering why they, and not the Nigerians, were holding towns like Damasak, several days after the last Boko Haram fighter has fled or been killed.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-soldiers-afraid-of-recaptured-boko-haram-towns-chad/

Day 43

Sadly the report about Nigerian troops not occupying towns liberated by Chadian and Nigerian troops seems to be true because of this report.

[b](Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday.

There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure, but the Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko Haram's abduction last April of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the region stirred international outrage and drew global attention to the group's six-year insurgency.

"They took 506 young women and children (in Damasak). They killed about 50 of them before leaving," a trader called Souleymane Ali told Reuters in the town. "We don’t know if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them."

Troops from Niger and Chad last week found the bodies of at least 70 people in an apparent execution site under a bridge leading out of Damasak, where the streets remain strewn with debris and burnt-out cars after the fighting.

Ali said his wife and three of his daughters were among those seized.

"Two of them were supposed to get married this year. (Boko Haram) said 'They are slaves so we’re taking them because they belong to us'," he said.

Mohamed Ousmane, another trader, said the militants took his two wives and three of their children.

A 40-year-old resident who gave her name as Fana said fighters had rounded up captives in the main mosque before taking them out of town. She said she saved her two children by hiding them in her house.

Boko Haram wants to carve out a caliphate in northern Nigeria. A sharp increase in violence forced a delay in planned elections last month in Africa's most populous country.

Nearly a year after Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls at Chibok, the radical Islamist militia appears to have struck again with another mass kidnapping in northern Nigeria.

Boko Haram has abducted between 400 and 500 women and children in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, according to residents and a military commander quoted by international news media on Tuesday.[/b]

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-violence-nigeria-kidnapping-idUSKBN0MK22Y20150324

Day 44

The Nigerian Army has debunked reports in the media
that about 500 people, mostly women and children
were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists in
Damasak, Borno State.

www.nairaland.com/2217415/boko-haram-army-debunks-kidnap#32009353

Who is telling the truth?

Day 45

The Nigerian army says it has retaken the north-
eastern town of Gwoza, believed to be the
headquarters of militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

The insurgents had now been driven from virtually all
the territory they had held, it said.

www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32087211

With elections scheduled to hold tomorrow, it is safe to say that the 6-week war against Boko Haram has been largely successful.

The big question is: why did the Federal Government wait for thousand of Nigerians to be killed, over a million displaced before taking decisive action?

In addition, the fact that Boko Haram still has the Chibok girls indicates it still has safe bases and is still a threat.

I hope tomorrow's elections will be peaceful same for the April 11 one.

God bless. Nigeria.