Mr BGabkwet said one the air strikes was carried out on April 5 at a terrorist enclave in the North-West of Yartsamiya Village.
The admonition followed Saturday’s kidnap of four students from their off-campus residence at Damba.
He said the charge was in line with President Bola Tinubu’s directive to the armed forces and other security agencies.
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He said the troops recovered a mobile phone containing numbers of four suspected ISWAP terrorists on the watch list of security agencies.
He said that the operations took place in the North East, North Central and North West.
Governors of the North-West and the Niger Republic have called for a review of the ECOWAS Article on the movement of persons and arms to tackle bandits.
The suspects were arrested while trying to withdraw the sum N14 million deposited into the account of the said suspected terrorist financier.
This was disclosed by Defence Spokesman Bernard Onyeuko while briefing reporters about military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja.
The spokesman for the Defence Headquarters said the feats were achieved in different operations across North-West and Central between May 2021 and January 2022.
At least 70 bandits were eliminated by Nigerian troops across theatres of operations in North-West and North-Central region, the military has said.
