Motorists and passengers including soldiers and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) at the weekend were ambushed by BokoHaram terrorists in Borno State.
Security has been beefed up at the residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa State, after the police foiled an attack by suspected BokoHaram members.
The group further said: "We are not against President Buhari granting the BokoHaram amnesty if their sole purpose is to own an Islamic caliphate in the north, but they should not shift it to the Niger Delta.
Two BokoHaram commanders and deputies to Abubakar Shekau, a factional leader of the terror group, were killed in successful military operations at Alafa in Borno on Sallah day, an official has said.
"In the wake of escalated kinetic and non-kinetic operations by the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), coupled with a dwindling logistic supply in BokoHaram hideouts, mass surrenders rattle BokoHaram insurgents.
It is because we were abducted from a school that government talked to BokoHaram and they released us. We thank them (government) very much, we appreciate them. May the Lord bless them for what they have done.
The Nigerian Army on Monday rescued the wife and daughter of Shehu of Bama from the BokoHaram enclave in Borno. The Emir's wife and two of her children were abducted by BokoHaram fighters two years ago.
"I will like to call on all the parties in the conflict; mainly the BokoHaram to immediately stop recruiting and using children; the use of children by BokoHaram as a human bomb is particularly disturbing and vulnerable.
According to Zagazola Makama, the arson followed a fierce encounter between the suspected ex-BokoHaram combatants and the police at the Kasuwan Fara Divisional Police Office.
BokoHaram terrorists have kidnapped Abraham Amuta, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Rabiu Aminu, the Borno State Coordinator of NYSC, has confirmed.
The Army said it had rescued all the 10 NNPC staff kidnapped by suspected BokoHaram terrorists in Borno on Tuesday. But the effort came with a huge price for the Nigerian military.