Nigerian troops have rescued 25 more women and children from Boko Haram’s northeastern stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, killing a number of insurgents and destroying Islamist camps, the military said Wednesday.

“Seven additional terrorists camps were yesterday destroyed as more terrorists also died in the ongoing onslaught to flush them out of Sambisa forest,” the defence headquarters said in a statement.

“An additional 25 women and children were rescued in the process,” it said.

According to the military, more than 700 women and children have been saved from Islamist captivity during a weeks long assault on the notorious forest in Borno state

At least 275 have been taken for rehabilitation to hospitals and camps in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, which neighbours Borno.
The military said soldiers in the latest operation had to evade landmines laid by the Islamist rebels before storming the camps.

“Various weapons including Rocket Propelled Grenades, anti-aircraft guns and a number of vehicles were either captured or destroyed during the operation. Four soldiers were wounded and have evacuated for treatment,” it said.

The military said troops would continue “to search the forests for terrorists, arms and hostages.”

As the military has announced a series of hostage rescues over the last two weeks, the world has anxiously awaited news of the 219 schoolgirls seized by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in April of 2014.

So far, none of the rescued girls have been identified as Chibok natives, but the military said nothing could be ruled out until each hostage is screened and their identity is established.

Many of the rescued hostages have demonstrated signs of severe mental and physical trauma and some said they suffered sexual abuse by Boko Haram gunmen.

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Kudos to NA

Hmmmmm, rescue all rescueables, sack all sackables and employ all employables within one month. All na CHANGE

The military's recent successes is quite relieving. My only problem is why was this offensive delayed till now. If this measure was taken years ago, BH would have been a fairytale told to stubborn children by now

How come military starts rescuing hostages and bokoharam threat reduces since APC won.
I keep on saying that I smell foul play bokoharan has been a political weapon since day one and it's no longer new to me

Trailblazer1:
The ones we seek, we find not; But the ones we find, we seek not. What a mystery in Nigeria!

we seek all those captured

kudos to the Nigerian Army.

I never knew boko haram kidnapped girls apart frm chibok girls. Something is wrong somewhere

dem no dey finish


buhari ur boys strong ooo

Good one from the Nigerian Army. more grace to their elbow.

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end of boko

good job

And they told us that only 200 girls were kidnapped

Why all the rescue this dying minutes?

What we used to hear during and before election was that Military killed Boko Haram.. Now hundreds of girls are being rescued on weekly basis...

I know something is fishy somewhere... Just don't know what it is...

Bunch of evil leaders... I will be opportune to make things right someday..

I believe soldiers now have access to correct gun now....


their fear is fearing the fear called General?

I suspect Jona is an evil perpetrator, because Nigeria Arm are the ones releasing them even before Gmb grasp power ... HOW COME?




I wish someone can narrate how Buhari ran government when he ruled then. .. Google isn't doing enough for me, it's like even boko haram is removing felders....

some people claimed he is behind them(boko haram) but NNPC release amazing reports in fear too....

Na d whole North East BH kidnap??

It is really interesting that all of a sudden boko haram seems extremely powerless and weak when they have been raging and raging for years.

From the account of the rescued girl, she clearly stated that the militants told them that their bosses have abandoned them and were not sending arms and money anymore making it difficult to feed all the women and children they had captured and wanted the women to follow them to escape before the nigerian troops bombard them and they refused.

Why is this happening now?

When america wanted to even help in the fight, they had to return because the FG provided no weapons or means to train the soldiers. Imagine.


It is now very clear that funding and arms have stopped going to boko haram because power is expected to change hands and now the boko haram boys are now the victim because their sponsors have no use for them anymore. I pray this boys come for their sponsors in the new agenda.

It's well

tell those guys up there 2 stopf za sacazim

Hallelujah!!!

All this emphasis on Chibok girls sef. Are the women and girls rescued not human? Any small rescue, na Chibok girls we go hear. May the rescue mission continue yielding more fruits

I'm so disappointed with Vangurd still calling these Terriorist "Islamist" by this time, i think this newspaper should know what these people represent.

Boko haram is all fraud.....engineered by top strong nigerian men known to the Govt in power

After the release of 300 hostages who were never declared missing and yet no news about the much publicised missing chibok girls, I'm beginning to doubt that any girl was missing in chibok

Good news

Trailblazer1:
The ones we seek, we find not;
But the ones we find, we seek not.
What a mystery in Nigeria!

D ones we can't find.......u can help us
D ones we find..u can visit dem to hear 4rm dem

If someone can trek for Buhari
Can't u trek for the real heroes, Nigeria Army