The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has demonstrated overwhelming air power in a series of devastating airstrikes, neutralizing terrorists and bandits across multiple northern states. The precision strikes targeted hideouts, logistics hubs, and weapons storage facilities, dealing a crippling blow to insurgent networks.
According to NAF spokesperson, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame,** the air component intensified its counterterrorism and counter-banditry operations with precision airstrikes nationwide. The operations specifically targeted ISWAP elements in Borno State and bandit enclaves in Kwara and Katsina States.
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The statement partly read,
“The Nigerian Air Force intensified its counterterrorism and counter-banditry operations nationwide with a series of precision airstrikes that neutralised ISWAP terrorists in Mallam Fatori and Shuwaram, Borno State, and destroyed bandit enclaves in Garin Dandi and Chigogo, Kwara State, as well as Zango Hill in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.”
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In Borno State, air assets, guided by real-time intelligence, struck locations where ISWAP terrorists were seen mobilising on motorcycles and boats along the Lake Chad Basin. “The strikes destroyed insurgent hideouts, logistics hubs, and weapons storage facilities, eliminating several terrorists and crippling their mobility capabilities,”the statement confirmed.
Simultaneously, NAF aircraft struck bandit camps in Kwara State and carried out armed reconnaissance across Zamfara, Kebbi, and Kaduna States. In a particularly decisive operation, air assets targeted a terrorist kingpin and his fighters at Zango Hill in Katsina State.
Ejodame added, “In a related operation, air assets under Operation FANSAN YAMMA struck Zango Hill in Kankara LGA, Katsina State, the hideout of a terrorist kingpin and his fighters... destroying key logistics hubs and neutralising several of the terrorists in one of the most decisive strikes in the region.”
The spokesman confirmed that these coordinated air operations reflect a sustained counterterrorism effort under the directives of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Aneke, significantly degrading the operational capabilities of terrorist groups across northern Nigeria.
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