Boko Haram Republic: Boko Haram takes over Bara in Yobe

Boko Haram insurgents have captured another territory in Yobe state on Wednesday after engaging in a fierce battle over Bama, a town not far from Maiduguri in Borno state.


Reuters reported that the newly captured town was taken over by the Islamist fighters without any resistance, with witnesses saying that the town was has no Nigerian troops guarding it.

“They went preaching in the whole town asking people to leave government work and join them to do the work of Allah,” Musa Abdullahi, a trader who escaped from the town of Bara, in Yobe state, said. - Nigerian Eye