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By SaharaReporters, New York More facts have emerged from a Nigeria Army source regarding how top level Boko Haram commanders, including an operative believed to be the spokesman of the sect, Abu Qaqa, were either captured or killed in Kano today. The army source told SaharaReporters that the incident took place at about 6:00a.m. at a checkpoint on Maiduguri Road ...

(AFP) – Nigerian soldiers on Monday shot dead a man suspected to have acted as a spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram and arrested two other high-ranking members, a military official said. “We carried out an operation early this morning in which we killed a media man of Boko Haram terrorists and arrested two field commanders of the sect,” said ...

The dreaded Islamic group, Boko Haram at the weekend dispatched the new spokesman, Abu Qaqa-2 to the grave beyond over reports of his alleged plan to defect from the group. The second spokesman, who took over the name Abu Qaqa after the original spokesman was picked by security agents was said to have been condemned to death after information was ...

Detained Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa has given State Security Service (SSS) operatives “reasonable clues” on the sect’s operations, The Nation learnt yesterday. Qaqa reportedly spoke of how some members of the sect who were tired of fighting were “slaughtered” in the presence of members of their families. Seven were killed recently, he reportedly told detectives. The killings were said ...