MAIDUGURI ATTACKS: Nigerian Military fight back, arrest 5 Boko Haram members near UNIMAID

Two hours after the first triple assault on Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State capital by suspected insurgents, gun shots are still being heard from a distance from the GRA police station.


Fighter planes of the Nigerian air force which responded with record speed according to one security personnel seem to be dropping bombs in a staccato manner returning back to base after the operation.

The varying sounds indicate different types of weapons used by both soldiers and insurgents said residents of the state hotel who have witnessed such encounters in recently.

Meanwhile five members of the sect have been caught close to the University of Maiduguri where they have been said to have stormed the town very close to the University simultaneously.

Students living around Barma road said a stray bullet hit a female student who was going to school about the same time when the others stormed the town from the University side.

Although no death figure has been confirmed by the University, a mass communications student Mayum Etim told a source on phone that ” It was correct that the insurgents stormed an area close to our school but they did not enter the campus. ”

” A female student was said to have received bullet wounds on her shoulder just above her breast but she has gone for treatment to stop the bleeding at the teaching hospital where services were still on going since they have soldiers keeping on guard.

“They did not enter our campus. It is however deserted by students who took off for their lives when the shots started booming opposite the campus. Soldiers have completely cordoned the place and the usual 7th division trucks are patrolling our streets from the Konjuga end of the University to Customs area which has porous areas where they dared to enter having being repelled from the Giwa barracks axis.

“The civilian JTF guys are doing a great job as they have been fishing out the determined insurgents who are bent on destabilizing the town. As a matter of fact, they have just caught five fleeing members of the sect near our home outside the Campos. They have been handed over to the men of the 7th division.

Meanwhile the daring seige on Maiduguri from about three fronts of the town continues. Fire Service vehicles were seen being escorted by soldiers to an unknown destination to put off fire on buildings that may have been set on fire by the insurgents from the Giwa barracks end of the town.