{"id":67731,"date":"2025-06-10T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67731"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:57:38","slug":"army-eliminates-iswap-commander-jidda-scores-of-terrorists-in-yobe-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/10\/army-eliminates-iswap-commander-jidda-scores-of-terrorists-in-yobe-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Eliminates ISWAP Commander Jidda, Scores of Terrorists in Yobe, Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated a notorious ISWAP commander, Malam Jidda, along with dozens of his fighters, in a coordinated air and ground offensive in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State and the Timbuktu Triangle in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday in Maiduguri by Capt. Reuben Kovangiya, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters Theatre Command, Operation Hadin Kai.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the operation commenced on June 9 in the Ngazalgana area of Gujba, with close air support from the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalam Jidda, identified as the Ameer of Ngorgore and Malumti villages, was killed during a fierce engagement with troops, who overpowered the terrorists with superior firepower,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that while some terrorists escaped with gunshot wounds, several others were neutralised during a follow-up ambush in the Timbuktu Triangle.<\/p>\n<p>The army also confirmed that in ongoing operations around the Mallamfatori area of Abadam LGA where recent offensives had been recorded; troops discovered more bodies of slain terrorists and recovered a cache of arms and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Items recovered include AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenade tubes, motorcycles, magazines, hand grenades, hand-held radios, large quantities of ammunition, and other logistics supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Kovangiya emphasized that the renewed offensive, supported by precise and timely airstrikes, reflects the effectiveness of the military\u2019s sustained counter-insurgency efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed the Theatre Command\u2019s unwavering commitment to decisively defeating Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents and restoring lasting peace and security to Nigeria\u2019s North-East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated a notorious ISWAP commander, Malam Jidda, along with dozens of his fighters, in a coordinated air and ground offensive in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State and the Timbuktu Triangle in Borno State. This was disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday in Maiduguri by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67733,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions\/67733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}