As part of measures to contain and quell the Boko Haram insurgency ahead
of the general elections, Nigerian military has stormed the insurgents
their notorious hideout in Sambisa Forest, according to reports from
the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The director of defence information, Maj-Gen Chris Olukolade, told the agency that the military had been raiding the forest and other hideouts of the sect.