The Nigerian military is in a heated battle with the dreaded Boko Haram members in Borno state as the war on insurgency drags on.
Nigerian army
There is a heavy fighting going on at strategic Bita town near Gwoza in Borno state between Boko Haram and the Nigerian Military.
According to Daily Trust, the fighting that started last night when insurgents in an attempt to capture Gwoza attacked a military facility at Bita where they met a stiff resistatnce from the army, went on throughout Monday night and continued Tuesday morning and is still ongoing.
The fight was said to have forced the military to deploy fighter jets from Yola to support ground troops who were being overwhelmed.
A source said the quick response by the jets was a big relief to the troops.
Gwoza is one of the Borno towns recaptured from the militants, and some of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the area returned there recently on the assurance that normalcy has been restored to the area.