Popular Nigerian Journalist, Jaafar Jaafar has revealed the Nigerian troops had a successful encounter with some 9 notorious members of the Boko Haram sect who were arrested alive in a recent operation in Ajilari village, Maiduguri; Borno state.

 

The fierce-looking terrorists were paraded before being whisked away by the army for interrogation.

 

In the same vein, a suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded at least one in an attack on a mosque in northern Cameroon on Wednesday, officials in the Far North region said, in the latest attack linked to an insurgency by militant group, Boko Haram according to the Nigerian Tribune.

"The suicide attack took place at 5:40 a.m. in a mosque at Kouyape. There were 13 deaths including the man who blew himself up and one wounded," said a senior local official who declined to be identified.

Another senior local official said at least 10 people died. Boko Haram has waged a six-year campaign for an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria. Neighbouring countries joined an offensive against the group last year and the conflict spilled across their borders, displacing tens of thousands of people.

Cameroon is also in an 8,700-strong regional force led by Nigeria against the militants, expected to be operational soon.

 

The United States is sending military supplies and troops to the central African country to aid the fight.