The Nigerian Air Force has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province, staging area at Gashigar and Tumbun Rego on the fringes of Lake Chad as well as Bula Bello near the Sambisa Forest all in Borno State.
According to a statement by the spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force, Air commodore Ibikunle Daramola, this was achieved in air strikes conducted by the Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE on Friday and Saturday.
The attack on Gashigar was based on Intelligence which indicated that the location, with its defensive parapets and underground tunnels, was being used by the ISWAP fighters as a staging area where they met to plan and launch attacks.
The attack aircraft effectively engaged the targeted locations equally destroying terrorist assets and neutralising several of their combatants.
