Nigerian troops have captured Boko Haram commander, “Ameer” of Chawa, Amman Judee and rescued another 212 persons held hostage by the terrorists.

The capture and rescue took place in an operation to clear remnants of insurgents from some villages in the northern fringes of the Sambisa forest. Four terrorists were also neutralised, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, the Director of Army Public Relations, has said.

Usman said the captured terrorists’ leader was undergoing interrogation, while the rescued persons were being documented and under-aged children among them administered oral polio vaccines.

The Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday, advised security operatives in Nigeria to devised alternative means of getting information from suspects other than inflicting pain on them.

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has denied a report by the Amnesty International alleging that a cache of thousands of internal documents suggested the Anglo-Dutch oil giant's complicity in crimes committed by the Nigerian military in the 1990s.

Eight minors displaced by the Boko Haram have been reunited with their families, now resident in displaced peoples’ camps in Borno State, years after being displaced, Channels Television news report.

Nigerian Army on Saturday repelled an attack by Boko Haram insurgents at Magumeri town, headquarters of Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State losing three soldiers in the process.

No fewer than 18 persons were reported to have died Friday after an 18-seater commercial bus and a tanker conveying diesel collided along the Owerri-Orlu road in Imo state.