Nigeria Denies Reports of Citizens Fleeing to Niger

The government has denied that 6,000 indigenes of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States had fled the country due to military onslaughts by troops in parts of the states held by extremist Islamist sect, Boko Haram, saying that the report was unfounded and not true.

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