The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday said that troops eliminated 159 terrorists and apprehended 174 others in the last week.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, made this known in an update on the operations of the armed forces in Abuja.
Mr Buba, a major general, said the troops also rescued 188 kidnapped hostages, apprehended 45 oil thieves and recovered 151 assorted weapons and 12,401 assorted ammunition within the period.
He said that the armed forces had taken resolute steps towards ending terrorism and insecurity in the country, through ongoing operations.
According to him, the operations are yielding the desired results as troops dismantle terrorist networks and decimate their leadership and combatants, with several of the terrorist leaders and commanders eliminated from the battlefield.
“Furthermore, troops are strategically deployed to ensure that the off-cycle governorship election scheduled for 21 September in Edo is violence-free,…