{"id":4379,"date":"2015-02-12T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2015-02-12T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:14:11","slug":"nigeria-troops-now-inside-sambisa-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria troops now inside Sambisa Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detachment of the Nigerian military has stormed the Sambisa Forest in Borno State to dislodge members of the violent sect, Boko Haram, who are believed to have used the forest as their stronghold, from where they unleash their terrorist activities. A confirmation of President Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s statement in a media chat that the Boko Haram islamic terrorists menace may soon be a thing of the past<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nigeria-Army.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4380\" alt=\"Nigeria Army\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nigeria-Army-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nigeria-Army-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nigeria-Army.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sambisa Forest was once believed to be the most feared hideout of the militants, where over 200 schoolgirls, who were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, were held captive.<br \/>\nMilitary sources told our correspondent on Wednesday that \u201ctroops have commenced a major operation in Sambisa to clean the forest of terrorists.\u201d<br \/>\nThe source did not, however, specify how many of the militants had been captured, but said the \u201cinsurgents will be flushed out soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detachment of the Nigerian military has stormed the Sambisa Forest in Borno State to dislodge members of the violent sect, Boko Haram, who are believed to have used the forest as their stronghold, from where they unleash their terrorist activities. A confirmation of President Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s statement in a media chat that the Boko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,77,18],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-terrorists","tag-nigeria-army"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nigeria-Army.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-18D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}