Nigeria: 8,000 Boko Haram Members Voluntarily Surrendered - Military
The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its "Operation Safe Corridor" in the North-East.
The Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, disclosed this at a lecture organised by the FCT Correspondents' Chapel of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecture with the theme, "Media-Military Relationship in the Fight against Insurgency", was part of the activities marking the 2016 Press Week of the chapel.
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