Abuja: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has sustained a series of intelligence-driven air interdiction operations across the North-East and North-West, neutralising terrorist elements and degrading their logistics and operational networks.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, stated that the operations were conducted between Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 under Operations HADIN KAI and FASAN YAMMA Sector 2. Ejodame highlighted that the air strikes were based on actionable intelligence regarding terrorist movement, hideouts, and logistics, with NAF aircraft targeting identified enclaves, routes, and assembly areas to disrupt the groups’ activities.
In the North-East theatre, NAF aircraft executed precision strikes on terrorist hideouts at Abirma and Chiralia in the Timbuktu Triangle. This action followed sustained surveillance, which confirmed the presence of facilities associated with improvised explosive device (IED) production and attack planning. The strikes resulted in the destruction of the targeted structures, with multiple secondary explosions observed, indicating the destruction of explosive stockpiles and logistics.
Further interdiction missions at Guva in the Mandara Mountains dismantled additional terrorist storage and coordination points, significantly weakening the groups’ capability to regroup or mount attacks. The operations were also extended to the North-West, where NAF aircraft targeted terrorist elements around Karaduwa Giginya Na in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State. The terrorists, who were tracked moving in large motorcycle convoys, were engaged at a forested convergence point, resulting in the neutralisation of several fighters, destruction of multiple motorcycles, and recovery of assorted weapons.
The NAF spokesman emphasized that the sustained air operations underscored the NAF’s resolve to support joint forces on the ground and dismantle terrorist networks across the country.