The Defence Headquarters has said that warplanes bombarded Sambisa forest, Boko Haram training camps and caches of weapons and vehicles belonging to the Boko Haram group.
A statement issued by the Defence Spokesman, Major-General Chris Olukolade, said a concerted air campaign by the Nigerian Air Force is ongoing in furtherance of the mission to clear terrorists from all their enclaves.
“The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases,” the statement said.
After years in which Boko Haram seemed to be gaining ground, seizing swathes of territory, killing thousands of people and kidnapping hundreds of mostly women and children, the tide has appeared to turn against them in the past month as neighbouring countries plagued by cross-border attacks have weighed in.
Samibisa gained notoriety last year when more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from a secondary school in nearby Chibok were taken there.
Some of them escaped Samibisa shortly afterwards but most have remained in captivity ever since.
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