Members of Boko Haram over the night captured Borno state town, Askira Uba, TheCable has been told.
The attacked happened less than a day after the Nigerian military regained Monguno, the only town previously under the control of the sect.
“They attacked the town in the night and burnt down the emir’s palace,” the source, who didn’t want to be named, said.
“Most of the villagers ran away into the bush, so there was really no casualty.”
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Boko Haram launched an audacious attack on Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, and Monguno, also in the state, on January 25.
While troops succeeded in repelling the Maiduguri raid, Monguno fell the following day.
On Monday, troops flushed out the insurgents from the town, which meant at the time that no part of the state was under the sect’s grip.
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what we’re seeing in our communities within the North East is that, Jonathan declared war against Northerners and if something urgent is not done about it we will keep dying in his hand. Be warned.
You are absolutely right.
I am also the north, chibok to be precise, but what you are saying is out of ignorance. don`t blame Jonathan, it`s the same northern politicians that are behind it just to make his govt. ungovernable because he is a Christian president.
Our leaders in politics and in the army should be ashamed of what they have turned Nigeria into. Every patriotic Nigeria should fight for Nigeria to continue to be a secular state. We need to exterminate this evil called Boko Haram and their prat of a leader out of this world.
We also need to look at the cause of this extremism in Nigeria. An oil producing nation where the majority live below poverty level, where there is no free education , no free health service, where there is no good road. A nation without contant supply of energy after 55 years of independence. A nation where people just need to go into politics to become multimillionaires through stealing from the coffers of government. We all need to wake up and fight for our fatherland. We need to rid Nigeria of corruption. We need to make our borders secured. We need to prevent Nigeria from been taking over by the so called Islamst fundamentalist whose aim is to destroy, to main, to rape our women and girls and turn them into prostitutes. Look at Syria and Iraq to see their handiwork. They are nothing but the devil incarnate and they need to be wiped off the face of the earth.