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The Minister of Information and Culture,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja said the figure excluded scores of other terrorists and armed bandits killed during airstrikes.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Minister of Interior,
Rauf Aregbesola, was at the media briefing on the progress made by the government in the war against terrorism and banditry.
Mohammed said some 52 criminal elements were arrested, with scores of arms, ammunition and equipment recovered while troops also rescued a total of 17 kidnapped victims across the country.
He said that a total of 684,856 barrels of stolen crude oil, 1,724,000 litres of stolen Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) and 500,000 litres of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) were recovered.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed. Photo: TWITTER/FMICNIGERIA
The Federal Government says no fewer than 158 armed bandits, terrorists and criminal elements have been neutralised by the Armed Forces across the country since the beginning of the year.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja said the figure excluded scores of other terrorists and armed bandits killed during airstrikes.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, was at the media briefing on the progress made by the government in the war against terrorism and banditry.
Armed U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drone Performs Emergency Landing In Northern Niger
Armed U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drone Performs Emergency Landing In Northern Niger
The pretty intact MQ-1C on the ground in Niger. (Author edit based on Twitter images).
A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle landed on on the ground in Niger, with a live Hellfire missile on the left wing pylon.
Photos have started to emerge on social media on Jan. 24, 2021, of a U.S. MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone on the ground in northern Niger.
The images show that the remotely piloted vehicle (with U.S. Army marking and serial number) carried at least one live AGM-114 Hellfire missile under the left hand wing.
Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri
Nigerian troops have eliminated five suspected Boko Haram members and got many more injured during a battle for Damboa in Borno State.
A statement yesterday by the Acting Director Defence Media Operations, Brig. Gen. Benard Onyeuko claimed that: “Troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO a subsidiary Operation of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the North East continue to obliterate elements of Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province criminals with uncommon ferocity as they overrun Abbagajiri and Dusula towns in Damboa.”
It said that the latest encounter with the marauding Boko Haram criminals occurred by 0835hrs on 20 January 2021 at Abbagajiri in Damboa LGA of Borno State where the gallant troops identified and encycled some Boko Haram criminals enclaves.