ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Updating your news feed...
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
Counterinsurgency operations of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the Lake Chad Basin received a major boost yesterday, Thursday, March 26, 2020, as President Idriss Deby Itno of the Republic of Chad called at Sector 2 in Baga Sola Island along the common border with Nigeria.
“President Deby offered strategic guidance and support urgently needed to ramp up the tempo of operations against Boko Haram terrorists in the locality,” according to MNJTF Chief of Public Information, Colonel Timothy Antigha.
“Briefing the President, the Force Commander, Major General Ibrahim Manu Yusuf, thanked President Deby for his guidance and support, assuring that the MNJTF will execute operations professionally and diligently in order to speedily bring succour to the traumatised populations of the Lake Chad Basin,” Antigha said in a statement issued in N’damena Chad.
•President Deby (second R) and Maj.-Gen. Yusuf flanked by aides of the President
