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Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE with assistance of Civilian JTF have arrested quite a number of infiltrating Boko Haram terrorists in Maiduguri and Mafa, north-east Nigeria. Confirming the report  on Friday , Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman, said a presumed kingpin of the group, Abur Modu Magaji, was apprehended by Civilian JTF  on Thursday  afternoon, at Kasuwar Shanu (Cattle Market) and handed over to troops.   “Preliminary investigation shows that he admitted to rustling 45 cows from Saleh Mohamed with 20 other Boko Haram terrorists at gun point. He however cooperated and assisted in pointing out 7 other suspected terrorists at Mafa road checkpoint” Usman said.  

Nigerian government on Monday accused a British newspaper,  The Telegraph , ‎of strengthening activities of Boko Haram insurgents in the country through its editorial content. Reacting to an article, titled: “Children Face Death by Starvation in Northern Nigeria”‎, Presidential media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, frowned at the write-up and decried the newspaper’s continued negative stories against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. ‎Shehu in a statement, said: “The London Telegraph’s article “Children Face Death by Starvation in Northern Nigeria” (30th July, 2016) repeats a claim from an earlier piece “Nigeria Using UK Aid to Persecute President’s Political Foes” (12th April, 2016) – that Nigeria is diverting UK aid monies away from defeating the Islamist terror group Boko Haram towards those the newspaper identifies as political opponents of the Administration. This is as incorrect as it is unhelpful. He regretted that: “These claims in both articles are attri...