Nigeria: Military - Over One Million People Rescued From Boko Haram in Six Months

21 June 2018

Maiduguri — The Nigerian military on Thursday said the last of the Boko Haram insurgents have been pushed into the Lake Chad water.

Briefing journalists in Maiduguri, the head of the military counter-insurgency operation in the North-east (Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Rogers Nicholas, said in the course of pushing the insurgents out of the shores of Nigeria, over a million people have been rescued from the captivity of terrorists in the last six months.

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