By Boko Haram insurgents, were on Friday defeated, after they attacked a troop of the Nigerian Army, in Buni Hari, Yobe state.
The troops however defeated the insurgents, making away with their vehicles and armour car.
”God gave us victory, we thank God. They (Boko Haram) are trying to come back for the corpse of their men but we were able to get their gun truck and APC from them.” a member of the troop said.
Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden.”
The group also refers to itself as Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, meaning “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.”
Boko Haram militants mainly inhabit areas in the northern states of Nigeria, specifically Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduna.
Originally, Boko Haram was referred to locally as the Nigerian Taliban because of their religious similarities to the Taliban.
Boko Haram does not engage in Nigeria’s political system out of an adherence to a fundamentalist form of Islam, which forbids participation unless the system is based on Sharia, or Islamic law.
