Nigerian Troops 'Kill Top Boko Haram Commander, Ari Gana, 5 Others' In Borno Ambush
Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 144 Battalion in collaboration with hybrid forces have reportedly neutralised a top commander of the Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, otherwise known as Boko Haram. The terrorist leader, Ari Gana, and five of his bodyguards were reportedly killed in Borno, northeast Nigeria. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Gana recently led an attack on a military patrol at Nvaha village along Gwoza to Limankara, killing four passengers and military personnel.