Nigeria’s security agency says arrested 20 suspected Boko Haram chiefs

significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram

 

 

Nigeria’s security agency said that it had made significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram and arrested 20 prominent members of the takfiri group accused of coordinating deadly attacks.
President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko Haram’s six-year-old insurgency a priority, but records show the terrorists have killed more than 700 people in Nigeria in bomb attacks and shootings since he came to office on May 29.
In the latest violence, around 56 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at a village in northeastern Borno state on Friday night.