The Nigerian troops have recorded another major success as they rescued about 84 people from the terrorists group, Boko Haram.
The troops also recovered heavy military weapons.
The military, according to the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas, on Saturday made the rescue during an operation in Borno State.
He said those rescued were held hostage by the insurgents at Camp Zairo and had been handed over to the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
Some of the women rescued, he said, were found to be pregnant while the children among them looked malnourished.
Nicholas, who handed the victims over to SEMA, said most of them were tasting freedom for the first time in about three years after their abduction.
He also disclosed that about 26 members of the insurgent groups had surrendered to the military authorities in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State earlier in the week.
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The ‘repentant’ terrorists were paraded on Friday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital after they were quizzed by the military.
He said they were said to have surrendered last week and turned over their arms and ammunition including RPGs, after which they were taken to Maiduguri for deradicalizsation.
More than 2300 fighters have surrendered in the last 13 months following intensive military action and seizure of the Sambisa forest, the main enclave of the insurgents.
More than 25,000 people have been killed in the insurgency since 2009 and at least 2.4 million Nigerians displaced in the northeast states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
The Army has said that it would conduct more exercises in 2018 to assist civil authorities to deal with internal security challenges in parts of the country.
