Maiduguri is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria,on the continent of Africa. The city sits along the seasonal Ngadda River which disappears into the Firki swamps in the areas around Lake Chad. Maiduguri was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British Empire during the colonial period. As of 2022,Maiduguri is estimated to have a population of approximately two million.
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,bordered by Yobe to the west,Gombe to the southwest,and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon,its northern border forms part of the national border with Niger,and its northeastern border forms all of the national border with Chad,being the only Nigerian state to border three foreign countries. It takes its name from the historic emirate of Borno,with the emirate's old capital of Maiduguri serving as the capital city of Borno State. The state was formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern State was broken up. It originally included the area that is now Yobe State,which became a distinct state in 1991.
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari,and was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election.
The Nigerian Army (NA) is the land force of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is governed by the Nigerian Army Council (NAC). The Chief of Army Staff is the highest ranking military officer of the Nigerian Army.
The 2009 Boko Haram uprising was a conflict between Boko Haram,a militant Islamist group,and Nigerian security forces.
Boko Haram,officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād,is an Islamist militant organization based in northeastern Nigeria,which is also active in Chad,Niger,northern Cameroon,and Mali. Boko Haram was the world's deadliest terror group during part of the mid-2010s according to the Global Terrorism Index. In 2016,the group split,resulting in the emergence of a hostile faction known as the Islamic State's West Africa Province.
The Boko Haram insurgency began in July 2009,when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. The conflict is taking place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria's Muslim and Christian communities,and the insurgents' ultimate aim is to establish an Islamic state in the region.
Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency is the chronology of the Boko Haram insurgency,an ongoing armed conflict between Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram have carried out many attacks against the military,police and civilians since 2009,mostly in Nigeria. The low-intensity conflict is centred on Borno State. It peaked in the mid 2010s,when Boko Haram extended their insurgency into Cameroon,Chad and Niger.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Nigeria.
The 2015 Baga massacre was a series of mass killings carried out by the Boko Haram terrorist group in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs,in the state of Borno,between 3 January and 7 January 2015.
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) is a combined multinational formation,comprising units,mostly military,from Benin,Cameroon,Chad,Niger,and Nigeria. It is headquartered in N'Djamena and is mandated to bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency.
Starting in late January 2015,a coalition of West African troops launched an offensive against the Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria.
On three days immediately before and during Ramadan,2015,four attacks struck Chad's capital N'Djamena. Three suicide attacks against two police targets killed 33 people on 15 June,five policemen and six terrorists were killed during a police raid on 27 Jun,and a suicide bomber killed 15 in N'Djamena's main market,on 11 July.
Tukur Yusuf Buratai(Listen)psc(+) NAM GSS ndc (BD) is a retired Nigerian army lieutenant general,former Chief of Army Staff,and Nigeria's Ambassador to the Republic of Benin. He was commissioned into the Nigerian Army in 1983 and has had multiple command,administrative,and instructional appointments.
Mohammed Shuwa was a Nigerian Army Major General and the first General Officer Commanding of the Nigerian Army's 1st Division. Shuwa commanded the Nigerian Army's 1st Division during the Nigerian Civil War. He was murdered in Maiduguri by suspected Boko Haram sect on 2 November 2012.
On the evening of September 20,2015,a series of bombings took place in Maiduguri and Monguno,Nigeria,killing at least 145 people and injuring at least 97 others. The majority of casualties occurred in Maiduguri where four explosions killed at least 117 people.
The Battle of Kodunga was a military engagement between the Nigerian Armed Forces and Boko Haram insurgents in Konduga,Borno State,northeastern Nigeria,in September 2014.
The Chibok ambush was an attack of Boko Haram insurgents against a Nigerian Army convoy in the night from 13 to 14 May 2014,as the latter was searching for schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist rebels. Even though the Nigerian Army forces managed to extricate themselves from the ambush,the attack seriously affected the morale of the involved soldiers who felt that their leadership was carelessly sacrificing them in the war against the insurgents. As result,elements of the Nigerian Army's 7th Division subsequently mutinied at Maiduguri and almost killed their own commander,"humiliat[ing] the Nigerian military".
The Chad Basin campaign of 2018–2020 was a series of battles and offensives in the southern Chad Basin,particularly northeastern Nigeria,which took place amid the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency. The Chad Basin witnessed an upsurge of insurgent activity from early November 2018,as rebels belonging to the Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched offensives and several raids to regain military strength and seize territory in a renewed attempt to establish an Islamic state in the region. These attacks,especially those by ISWAP,met with considerable success and resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The member states of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF),namely Nigeria,Niger,Chad,and Cameroon responded to the increased insurgent activity with counter-offensives. These operations repulsed the rebels in many areas,but failed to fully contain the insurgency.
The 7th Division is an infantry unit of the Nigerian Army.
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