TruthNigeria is the only outlet that reports that Boko Haram terrorists have stormed a military base and looted the town of Kirawa, in Gozah County (Local Government Area), on Wednesday morning (March 11, 2026). Thousands of the natives have fled to the neighbouring Cameroon,

In the first reports given by eyewitnesses, the attacks seem to be gruesome and devastating.

Driven out Three Times After Going Home.

According to Monica Daniel, a 32-year-old native of Agapalawa, Gozah LGA, in Borno State, who fled to Cameroon in 2014 after her town was stormed by Boko Haram, she said: “They (terrorists) arrived this morning at 3 am in three directions.”

“I heard shooting and fire all around, and people screaming and running in different directions without any idea.” That was the case according to Daniel, who had been persuaded to come back to Nigeria in December 2025 with the promise that everything was better.

“I heard that even the army in the town was running. The shooting was excessive,” she said to TruthNigeria in a little village in Cameroon.

On March 6, 2026, Daniel, who had resettled in Ngoshe in December, fled a midnight raid on Ngoshe and fled to Kirawa, approximately 7 miles west of the Cameroonian border.

Terror Fleece Soldiers and Civilians.

Jatau Haruna, who fled Kirawa to Cameroon on Wednesday, cannot move again as I am talking to you.

He said, “we walked with children over rough places with no roads, and in the dark.

I have swollen feet, and we are in primary school now,” he said.

“I do not even know the name of this village. I know we are in Cameroon, and we are not in any danger, ” he said.

“It was no small attack, since even the army barracks there were being blown down by the terrorists, and the soldiers were running along with us,” he said.

“I was running, and the town was burning,” he added.

“The person interviewed was asked whether he was aware that people were killed, and he responded that, surely, some people were killed, some may have been kidnapped. Numerous cell phone numbers of my family members are not working. I don’t know their fate,” he said.

Military, Senator Mum

Any effort to be governed with confirmation by the military authority proved futile because Lt. Col Uba Sani, the Media Information Officer of Joint Military Task Force, Northeast, could not be picked up.

Senator Ali Ndume, the Senator representing Borno South Senatorial zone, was not contacted back, including a message sent to his WhatsApp app.

In a report in the HumAngle of 2014, Boko Haram had earlier stormed Kirawa, a town with a majority of Christians, in 2014, and residents and soldiers fled to Cameroon and the neighbouring Pulka.

Daily Trust states that the town has remained the victim of periodic insurgent attacks, the most recent of which happened in 2025, in which there were killings and kidnappings.

Strategic importance of Kirawa

According to TruthNigeria, on Wednesday, Col. Aliyu Danbaba of SignWell Consult, Abuja, said, “Kirawa is strategically sensitive.”

The town is located in the valley of Mandara Mountain, which is quite near the border of Cameroon, allowing movement across the border. It is situated on the trade routes that connect the Sambisa axis, the Gwoza hills and the border communities, which the insurgents have used in the past, he said.

Co-ordinated, Simultaneous Attacks

A number of media, including The Guardian, have reported the coordinated attacks by the Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on the Nigerian military bases in Borno State over the night and morning of Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, that targeted the bases of Konduga, Mainok, Jakana and Marte. The attacks were conducted using heavy firearms and organised raids, leaving the Nigerian soldiers with huge losses.

According to security sources, it killed about 40 soldiers as the raids took place simultaneously, but the military refused to provide the actual casualty number later and actually denied it, but said that there were no official casualty figures, the Guardian reported.

Some of the killed officers, according to ujasusi.com, included Lt. Col. S.I. Iliyasu, Commanding Officer of the 222 Battalion in Konduga and Lt. Col. Umar Farouq, a commanding officer who was later killed during a related attack in Kukawa.

According to locals and security agencies that reported the attack through Arise News, the insurgents also attacked civilian communities with the interim force taking approximately 300 inhabitants, including women and children, after raiding Ngoshe, Gwoza LGA, in Borno State.