Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in northern Nigeria, the BBC has learnt.<\/p>\n
In one attack, gunmen reportedly fired on a crowd in a church compound.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The latest attacks come as the Nigerian army has denied reports that several generals have been found guilty of aiding Boko Haram in their insurgency.<\/p>\n
Nigerian media reported on Tuesday that 10 generals and five other senior military officers had been tried before a court martial for supplying arms and information to the militant group.<\/p>\n
However, a military spokesman called the reports “falsehoods”.<\/p>\n
This contradicted an earlier statement by the interior minister, Abba Moro, saying it was “good news” that the army had identified the accused, and that it sent a strong message to other serving officers.<\/p>\n
State of emergency<\/strong><\/p>\n Nigerian media said the latest attacks happened on Tuesday in Borno state.<\/p>\n Residents in the village of Attagara, close to the Cameroonian border, said that armed men had ordered them into a church compound.<\/p>\n They said they were led to believe the men were from the Nigerian military. Eyewitnesses said the men then opened fire on the crowd.<\/p>\n Nigerian media report that at least six villages were raided and 30 people killed.<\/p>\n Nigerian MP Peter Biye told the BBC there had been several similar raids in the area and that many homes had been destroyed.<\/p>\n Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in northern Nigeria, the BBC has learnt. In one attack, gunmen reportedly fired on a crowd in a church compound. Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. The latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-22404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}