Some repentant insurgents on Saturday begged residents on the streets of Maiduguri, Borno state for forgiveness. The insurgents made the appeal to residents as they carried out sanitation exercises in the communities.
Onyema Nwachukwu, the military urged all Boko Haram insurgents to reconsider the lives they have chosen and discard the murderous and hypocritical ideology their leaders espouse.
Dilli added that thousands of farmers had returned to the farms in the liberated areas, in spite of the insurgents' attacks. However, he said, most of them could not go to the farms for fear of the insurgents' attacks.
Ishaku requested the deployment of special security forces in the state to root out "the regrouping Boko Haram insurgents and other terrorists in the state".
On Friday, the Nigerian air force announced how it deployed several aircraft to bomb gatherings of the insurgents who had attacked a military base in Baga.
A video of some Nigerian soldiers offering prayers to God just before embarking on a fight with insurgents has surfaced online. In the video, a Christian soldier led the prayers for Christians followed by a Muslim prayer.
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