NAN reports on June 23, experts said if Al- Baghdadi is confirmed dead, he is likely to be succeeded by one of his top two lieutenants. Iyad Al-Obaidi and Ayad Al-Jumaili, both were army officers under late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Eighty-five persons in Boko Haram captivity have been rescued in the Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State after a gun battle between the insurgents and troops ofthe Nigerian Army attached to Operation Lafiya Dole.
The first attack claimed 19 lives; while second attack left 33 people dead. Meanwhile, details ofthe attack are still sketchy at the moment as neither the police authorities nor theArmy has reacted to the development.
Agu said, "The search team, made up of civil defence, Navy, Army, gunboat crew and others left Obama station at 0915 hours on Thursday in search ofthe bodies of killed Agip personnel.
At the end of investigations, his body will be court-martialed and possibly sentenced to 40 days in the military guardroom, in line with the laws and statutes governing the Ghana Army.
Thearmy is yet to release a statement over the tragic incident. Some ofthe soldiers on the battlefront have not been allowed to visit their loved ones in years, while many have been killed by insurgents.
Two of them were unconscious and were evacuated by the Italian army for treatment. The other 23 people are in serious condition, exhausted, dehydrated and burned by the fuel on board the boat.
The LG Chairman said; "I was present on Monday morning where we did mass burial of 106 killed and we are still picking more dead bodies in the farmlands."
The management of Nigerian Army has opened up on what led to the burning down of a Benue community by its troops on Wednesday following the killing of one soldier by some residents.
Kanu maintained that the Nigerian Army should tell the world what happened to her husband, saying nobody in his family knows whether he was dead or alive.
Hot Pie Status: Dead Cause: Another character we probably won't see in season eight, but one that would likely die offscreen. He'll be one ofthe many casualties ofthe White Walker army coming down from the North.