04 July, 2017
Among the 700, 70 are now being profiled.
This was made known in a statement by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman.
Camel-riding Boko Haram militants killed nine people and abducted dozens more in a village in southern Niger on Sunday night, the local mayor and a journalist said.
"The rest are expected to come out from hiding the coming days", the statement said.
It said that it contributed by consolidating, especially in the last one year on the gains so far achieved in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency and other domestic threats.
He says the Islamic extremists took mostly women and children hostage and threatened to hold them until other extremists are released from prison.
"At least nine Boko Haram insurgents and 100 accomplices were identified among 920 Nigerian refugees who returned from Marwa in Cameroon on Wednesday", the agency's head, Ahmed Satomi told AFP.
Buratai stated this during a Photo/Arts Exhibition, which was part of activities to mark the week-long Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL).
"I will like to congratulate not only our gallant troops, but indeed the Nigerian Navy and Air Force who are also operating in the North-East".
