The Nigerian Army on Friday says a senior Commander of ISWAP, Bukar Gana Fitchmeram (aka Abu Aisha), and scores of his fighters who were on revenge mission at Damasak, fell to the fire power of Nigerian troops.
Boko Haram and ISWAP, your days of terrorism are numbered as the Nigerian Air Force will soon take delivery of six of 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft.
Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has knocked out more hideouts of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists, killing scores in Borno, Defence Headquarters says.
The Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralized several Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters at Doron Naira on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno State.
The Defence Headquarters said the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, have eliminated 16 Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist and arrested 11 in the North East in the last one week.
Several leaders of the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP and their fighters have been neutralised in a successful air interdiction mission by Nigerian forces at Alinwa in Borno.
No fewer than 25 high profile Boko Haram commanders have been neutralised by Nigeria's Air Force and ground forces in the last two months of intensified offensives near Lake Chad.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced Thursday that it has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) hideout at Bukar Meram on the fringes of the Lake Chad Basin in northern Borno.
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has declared a spiritual war against Boko Haram and ISWAP, saying the emergence of insurgency in 2009 was itself a strange evil, requiring a similar medicine.
A video has been released by ISIS's Amaq 'news agency purportedly showing the execution of a Nigerian Christian by a young boy from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror group, marauding in Nigeria's north east
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has told Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa, ISWA, terrorists that Christianity can never be defeated or wiped out from Nigeria.
Fighters of the Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP), have released a video showing the killing of 11 Christians abducted from Borno State some weeks back.
The Nigerian Army said its troops have flushed out remnants of Boko Haram and ISWAP operating ` in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Media Coordinator, Col. Among Iliyasu said.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed a major Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Logistics Base and Training Camp at Kusuma on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno.
Nigerian soldiers deployed to fight Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East are using outdated weapons and
equipment, including Shilka artillery guns procured during the administration of late Alhaji Shehu Shagari, president of Nigeria between 1979 and 1983.
Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province terrorists in large numbers are fleeing their hideouts in Lake Chad Tumbus to North and Central Africa sub-regions, Col. Sagir Musa, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, claimed.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed two ammunition–laden gun trucks in Northern Borno, belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Buhari administration will not give up on the safe return of Leah Sharibu, the student of Government Girls Science and Technical Secondary School, Dapchi, who was kidnapped by a faction of Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018.
Fierce clashes between the Multinational Joint Task Force and IS-affiliated fighters in Baga, Borno state have left ISWAP more worsted, with 40 of its men killed.
Islamic State militants have launched attacks on Nigerian troop positions in Baga and Benishiek, in Borno state. However it is unclear the casualties recorded on the Nigerian side.