{"id":24920,"date":"2019-05-15T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:19:55","slug":"nigerian-troops-rescue-54-boko-haram-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24920","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian troops rescue 54 Boko Haram hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> ABUJA, May 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Nigerian army confirmed that 54 people held hostage by Boko Haram have been rescued in a military operation in the northeastern state of Borno.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, army spokesman Sagir Musa said troops carried out the operation on Saturday to clear remnants of Boko Haram from Ma&#8217;allasuwa and Yaa-Munye villages in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musa said the terrorists fled the troops&#8217; onslaught and abandoned the victims, including 29 women and 25 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The army spokesperson added that troops on clearance operation destroyed two Boko Haram logistics vehicles and makeshift camp in Damasak general area of Mobbar local government area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many areas have been cleared, while many hostages have been set free and scores of insurgents killed in different patrols conducted by Nigerian troops across the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s northeast region has been a stronghold of the extremist group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over past months, the Nigerian government has launched several military operations to eliminate the terrorist threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boko Haram has been blamed for the death of more than 20,000 people and displacement of 2.3 million others in Nigeria since 2009. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, May 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Nigerian army confirmed that 54 people held hostage by Boko Haram have been rescued in a military operation in the northeastern state of Borno.\u00a0 In a statement, army spokesman Sagir Musa said troops carried out the operation on Saturday to clear remnants of Boko Haram from Ma&#8217;allasuwa and Yaa-Munye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}