Yakubu Ibrahim, Maiduguri

The dreaded militant group, Boko Haram in the early hours of Wednesday attacked the Bukawa Military Base in Maiduguri, Borno state killing scores of Nigerian troops and looting military hardwares, Igbere TV has learned.

Sources say the attack which caught the army by surprise saw the militants carting away some Armoured Personnel Carriers, (APC), Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG’s) and other military hardwares.

The army recorded some unspecified number of casualties while scores were captured by the insurgents and taken as “prisoners of war”.

A source in Maiduguri who asked not to he named due to the sensitive nature of the crisis said, the attack has not only exposed the complicity of some top military brass of the Nigerian army who are working for the insurgents and making brisk business for themselves out of the war against Boko Haram in the North East but has also demoralised and weakened the moral of the men in uniform fighting the insurgents.

“All is not well with the war the military high command is pursuing the war against Boko Haram in the zone. The war against Boko Haram is now business where some top military generals make money at the expense of national security and the welfare and lives of the soldiers in the front line”.

” The officers on the front line are not motivated because of the politics of the war. Soldiers from the Southern part of the country are sent to Maiduguri to fight and die while Northerners are deployed to promote and protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. This is one dubious politics that has undermined the army’s ability to contain the insurgents and win the war which is getting worse by the day despite the billions of naira spent to prosecute the war” said a military source in Maiduguri.

The source said, the failure of Nigerian troops to contain the insurgents and the frequent invasion of military base and carting away of equipment by the terrorists is adding another dangerous dimension to ongoing war, as having new military hardwares and technology falling into the hands of terrorists poses a much bigger threat to not just the security of Nigeria but the entire region that is battling with porous borders and lack of inter-agency cooperation from neighboring countries in the region.

In a related development, an investigation by The Next Edition, an online newspaper, has reported that Nigerian security operatives are significantly sabotaging the government’s efforts to eliminate Boko Haram as they aid the funnelling of huge volumes of petrol and other fuel products to the deadly group.

According to Mr Ibanga Isine, the soldiers, police, customs, immigration and civil defense operatives frequently receive bribes and turn a blind eye as fuel marketers and smugglers divert truckloads of petrol and foodstuff to Boko Haram enclaves in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
During interviews with security operatives, marketers and undercover exploration of the dark market, the newspaper obtained details of the well-coordinated transactions and is able to provide a glimpse into a largely unreported and unregulated operation that has clearly fed the insurgency in the Northeast and helped prolonged the nine-year war.

The reporting has also shown the impact of the large-scale murky operation on the nation’s petro-economy.

Highly classified sources said not fewer than 60 trucks loaded with petrol and an equal number carrying foodstuff illegally leave the country through Adamawa State daily.
This newspaper learnt that Boko Haram insurgents get their food and fuel supplies from the diverted products.

Each day, operatives of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, manning the many checkpoints across Adamawa State extort bribes ranging from N500 to N300, 000 from motorists in order to allow them to pass regardless of the vehicle convey .

The smuggled fuel is sold at lucrative rates either to the Boko Haram insurgents, a group that has waged war against the Nigerian state since 2009, or is ferried across the border.
Today, Nigeria’s subsidised petrol and foodstuff are being illegally sold in countries such as Cameroon, Niger, Chad and in the Central African Republic.

The military sources said Boko Haram has relied on such smuggling fuel to power their vehicles and motorcycles when going for attacks.

Repeatedly, security services in Borno, Gombe and Yobe have either arrested suspected Boko Haram fuel suppliers or seized huge consignments of petroleum products believed to have been procured for the militants.

In July 2016, the Army in Borno State arrested a man it said was a supplier of fuel to Boko Haram.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the suspect was arrested with a truck loaded with 25 jerry cans of petrol and other goods cleverly covered in cartons.

In January 2018, the NSCDC in Borno State said it seized 1,000 litres of petrol from suspected Boko Haram fuel suppliers. The NSCDC Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi, told the NAN that the products were filled into jerry cans and concealed in sacks. In June, the Army said it arrested two other men in Gombe for allegedly selling large quantities of fuel to Boko Haram. Concealing fuel-filled containers under sacks would turn out a common method for hiding smuggled or diverted products in neighbouring Adamawa as this investigation has shown.

Source : http://igberetvnews.com/480954/breaking-boko-haram-attacks-bukawa-military-base-many-soldiers-killed/

Waiting for anyone who will tell me to vote APC again

Up boko... Let the zoo be destroyed...

Those trained liars named the Nigerian army should come tell a lie about this attack.

I'm curiously waiting.

Bokoharam should just spare the lives of defenseless innocent Nigerians.
Python dancers have met their real match

Haba..! Wetin dey happen naaaa..?

On the average, between 1-5 soldiers die in the hands of Boko Haram everyday.


Since 2009, Nigeria has lost between 3000 - 15000 soldiers to BH.

Since 2009, more than 35,000 soldiers have been injured beyond physical combat functionality.

Since 2009, more than 50,000 soldiers have gone AWOL or MIA.


If You Doubt My Report, Go and Conduct A Secret Investigation.

God of mercy

How credible is this?





What is going on this country

hmmm something is wrong somewhere

how comes the media did not carry this news...

it is finished

With what I read here what are southern soldiers still doing in sambisa forest, or if someone decides to leave,will army Court martial him? please I didn't get it why die for nothing

mikejj:
how comes the media did not carry this news...

The media has been caged to deceive Nigerians as well as to avoid a situation whereby, Southerners avoid being sacrificial lambs since they do not seek to waste their foot soldiers for the upcoming jihad.

Welcome to Next Level

And to think one old man promised to "lead this same war from the front"?

it's as disappointing as it is shameful

disappointing to the gullible folks that believed him and a shame to the nation's military in the committee of nations.


#Back 2DauraIsAProject

Damn!

Igboblog:
Yakubu Ibrahim, Maiduguri

The dreaded militant group, Boko Haram in the early hours of Wednesday attacked the Bukawa Military Base in Maiduguri, Borno state killing scores of Nigerian troops and looting military hardwares, Igbere TV has learned.

Sources say the attack which caught the army by surprise saw the militants carting away some Armoured Personnel Carriers, (APC), Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG’s) and other military hardwares.

The army recorded some unspecified number of casualties while scores were captured by the insurgents and taken as “prisoners of war”.

A source in Maiduguri who asked not to he named due to the sensitive nature of the crisis said, the attack has not only exposed the complicity of some top military brass of the Nigerian army who are working for the insurgents and making brisk business for themselves out of the war against Boko Haram in the North East but has also demoralised and weakened the moral of the men in uniform fighting the insurgents.

“All is not well with the war the military high command is pursuing the war against Boko Haram in the zone. The war against Boko Haram is now business where some top military generals make money at the expense of national security and the welfare and lives of the soldiers in the front line”.

” The officers on the front line are not motivated because of the politics of the war. Soldiers from the Southern part of the country are sent to Maiduguri to fight and die while Northerners are deployed to promote and protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. This is one dubious politics that has undermined the army’s ability to contain the insurgents and win the war which is getting worse by the day despite the billions of naira spent to prosecute the war” said a military source in Maiduguri.

The source said, the failure of Nigerian troops to contain the insurgents and the frequent invasion of military base and carting away of equipment by the terrorists is adding another dangerous dimension to ongoing war, as having new military hardwares and technology falling into the hands of terrorists poses a much bigger threat to not just the security of Nigeria but the entire region that is battling with porous borders and lack of inter-agency cooperation from neighboring countries in the region.

In a related development, an investigation by The Next Edition, an online newspaper, has reported that Nigerian security operatives are significantly sabotaging the government’s efforts to eliminate Boko Haram as they aid the funnelling of huge volumes of petrol and other fuel products to the deadly group.

According to Mr Ibanga Isine, the soldiers, police, customs, immigration and civil defense operatives frequently receive bribes and turn a blind eye as fuel marketers and smugglers divert truckloads of petrol and foodstuff to Boko Haram enclaves in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
During interviews with security operatives, marketers and undercover exploration of the dark market, the newspaper obtained details of the well-coordinated transactions and is able to provide a glimpse into a largely unreported and unregulated operation that has clearly fed the insurgency in the Northeast and helped prolonged the nine-year war.

The reporting has also shown the impact of the large-scale murky operation on the nation’s petro-economy.

Highly classified sources said not fewer than 60 trucks loaded with petrol and an equal number carrying foodstuff illegally leave the country through Adamawa State daily.
This newspaper learnt that Boko Haram insurgents get their food and fuel supplies from the diverted products.

Each day, operatives of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, manning the many checkpoints across Adamawa State extort bribes ranging from N500 to N300, 000 from motorists in order to allow them to pass regardless of the vehicle convey .

The smuggled fuel is sold at lucrative rates either to the Boko Haram insurgents, a group that has waged war against the Nigerian state since 2009, or is ferried across the border.
Today, Nigeria’s subsidised petrol and foodstuff are being illegally sold in countries such as Cameroon, Niger, Chad and in the Central African Republic.

The military sources said Boko Haram has relied on such smuggling fuel to power their vehicles and motorcycles when going for attacks.

Repeatedly, security services in Borno, Gombe and Yobe have either arrested suspected Boko Haram fuel suppliers or seized huge consignments of petroleum products believed to have been procured for the militants.

In July 2016, the Army in Borno State arrested a man it said was a supplier of fuel to Boko Haram.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the suspect was arrested with a truck loaded with 25 jerry cans of petrol and other goods cleverly covered in cartons.

In January 2018, the NSCDC in Borno State said it seized 1,000 litres of petrol from suspected Boko Haram fuel suppliers. The NSCDC Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi, told the NAN that the products were filled into jerry cans and concealed in sacks. In June, the Army said it arrested two other men in Gombe for allegedly selling large quantities of fuel to Boko Haram. Concealing fuel-filled containers under sacks would turn out a common method for hiding smuggled or diverted products in neighbouring Adamawa as this investigation has shown.

Source : http://igberetvnews.com/480954/breaking-boko-haram-attacks-bukawa-military-base-many-soldiers-killed/

boys scout on the run. They should have kill all of them. Pyton dancer. I hate N. A.

Na soft target lol

These People go FINISH people HUSBANDS oooo
What’s all these naaaa

Fighting with weapons purchased by ALIYU SHEHU SHAGARI....na waaaa

This is bad for our military and the nation.The reality is that the APC government have been lying to the nation about the true state of this senseless BH war.

buhari is the one killing those soldiers! Bu hari is a terrorist!

Warship:
On the average, between 1-5 soldiers die in the hands of Boko Haram everyday.


Since 2009, Nigeria has lost between 3000 - 15000 soldiers to BH.

Since 2009, more than 35,000 soldiers have been injured beyond physical combat functionality.

Since 2009, more than 50,000 soldiers have gone AWOL or MIA.


If You Doubt My Report, Go and Conduct A Secret Investigation.

oga statistic were you there live counting the remains?... the death of soldiers have have tripled from 2015 till date,you dont need statistics just visit 44 military hospital, the rest is story.

so southern soldiers cannot walk out of NE abi?

Again

vote for me

I will lead from the front


I will wipe out Boko Haram in two months

Rubbish
...only fools fall for this government .. I hope Yoruba Muslims are seeing results of their actions

Fool me once.... Shame on you
Fool me twice.. Shame on me

In a sane country, Buhari would’ve been serve with impeachment notice

The media's these days are gaged to protect the military

We are getting there gradually. Afghanistan here we come

Politicians
When will the masses start resisting them?

Impossible. Give them stipends and see them worship u.
E.g. is nairaland.
They can even help you kill their people.

I wish all of u good luck. U absolutely need it.

When the spiral effect of what is happening now start manifesting, nobody is safe.
We still see it as pdp versus apc war.
Both pdp and apc are fuelling this boko boys all because of free money and power and the masses are taking sides.

Apc did it to pdp, pdp will revenge.
If power goes back to pdp, apc will continue from where they stopped.
We can see that the world powers don't care anymore as we are the ones fuelling these boys.

And it has come to stay.
Welcome to Nigeria.

Where the youths are busy praising politicians.
Very hungry people.
Poverty is a disease.
When there is poverty of the mind, it becomes a disaster.
Smh

Igboblog always with bad news

This is reported already, when did this happen?