{"id":6769,"date":"2019-03-19T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2019-03-19T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:23:20","slug":"boko-haram-adamawa-govt-confirms-terrorists-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/boko-haram-adamawa-govt-confirms-terrorists-attack","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: Adamawa govt confirms terrorists attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The military on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2019\/03\/18\/boko-haram-troops-battle-terrorists-michika\/\">chased out Boko Haram insurgents who tried to enter Michika,<\/a>\u00a0a commercial town in Adamawa, after a fierce battle that raged for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, Adamawa Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, told NAN that the military was on top of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sajoh, the insurgents, who entered through Kirchinga village in neigbouring Madagali local government, were resisted by the military which had deployed reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey burnt the First Bank in Michika and some shops,\u201d Sajoh said.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents of Michika said they started hearing gunfire and explosions around 7 p.m. on Michika- Lassa road as the insurgents, who approached the town, were confronted by the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hearing gunshots and the fight is raging on,\u201d a resident of Michika who simply identified himself as Idris, told NAN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPray for us; Boko Haram are trying to enter Michika,\u201d another resident, Teri, said.<\/p>\n<p>John Jigalambu, a resident of Bazza, a village near Michika, said they could hear gunshots and most residents in the village had escaped to avoid the attackers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military on Monday\u00a0chased out Boko Haram insurgents who tried to enter Michika,\u00a0a commercial town in Adamawa, after a fierce battle that raged for hours. Confirming the incident, Adamawa Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, told NAN that the military was on top of the situation. According to Sajoh, the insurgents, who entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[168,45,231,179,180],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-attack","tag-boko-haram","tag-military","tag-terror","tag-terrorist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boko Haram: Adamawa govt confirms terrorists attack - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/boko-haram-adamawa-govt-confirms-terrorists-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boko Haram: Adamawa govt confirms terrorists attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The military on Monday\u00a0chased out Boko Haram insurgents who tried to enter Michika,\u00a0a commercial town in Adamawa, after a fierce battle that raged for hours. 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