{"id":51499,"date":"2019-11-21T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51499"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:00:06","slug":"nigerian-air-force-destroys-boko-harams-meeting-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51499","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Air Force Destroys Boko Haram&#8217;s Meeting Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LAGOS, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The Nigerian air force (NAF) said, it has wiped out one of terror group Boko Haram&#8217;s meeting venues, in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation by the NAF also led to the death of several Boko Haram leaders, NAF spokesperson, Ibikunle Daramola, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation was conducted, following intelligence reports that some Boko Haram leaders had gathered for a meeting within a settlement, in which they also stored logistics supplies, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants were killed as they attempted to flee the location and the air strikes also destroyed part of the settlement, Daramola said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NAF, according to Daramola, will continue to destroy remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists, by cooperating with surface forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The northeast region of Nigeria has been destabilised for over a decade by Boko Haram, which is known for its agenda to maintain a virtual caliphate, in the most populous African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group has launched attacks on military targets in northeastern Nigeria, killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The Nigerian air force (NAF) said, it has wiped out one of terror group Boko Haram&#8217;s meeting venues, in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno. The operation by the NAF also led to the death of several Boko Haram leaders, NAF spokesperson, Ibikunle Daramola, said in a statement. The operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286,198,291,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}