Terrorists overrun Military Base, kill Brigadier General

Terrorists in northeast Nigeria have killed a brigadier general in an assault on a military base.

AFP reports that a local government chairman told its correspondent on Thursday, adding that such was the second killing of a high-ranking officer in five months.

It was gathered that in an overnight attack, unidentified terrorists killed at least 18 soldiers and torched vehicles at a base in Benisheikh, about 75 kilometres from Borno State capital Maiduguri.

The base Commander, Brigadier General O.O. Braimah, lost his life,” Kaga Local Government Chairman Zannah Lawan Ajimi told AFP in a phone interview.

Two intelligence sources confirmed Braimah’s death to AFP.

His death follows the killing of Brigadier General Musa Uba by ISWAP in November. He was the highest-ranking military official to die in the long-running conflict since 2021.