{"id":224508,"date":"2026-02-20T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boko-haram-soldiers-arrest-drone-supplier-suspected-collaborators\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:29:48","slug":"nigeria-boko-haram-soldiers-arrest-drone-supplier-suspected-collaborators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boko-haram-soldiers-arrest-drone-supplier-suspected-collaborators\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Boko Haram &#8211; Soldiers Arrest Drone Supplier, Suspected Collaborators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Items recovered from the suspect included two aerial drones, drone accessories and 20 solar power banks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A joint security force, including troops of Operation Hadin Kai, vigilantes and hunters, has arrested Dauba Gubula, a 64-year-old suspected terrorist collaborator and drone supplier to insurgents in the North-east region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Mr Gubula was arrested at a motor park in Madagali, one of the local government areas worst hit by Boko Haram insurgency in Adamawa State, the spokesperson for Operation Hadin&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Items recovered from the suspect included two aerial drones, drone accessories and 20 solar power banks. A joint security force, including troops of Operation Hadin Kai, vigilantes and hunters, has arrested Dauba Gubula, a 64-year-old suspected terrorist collaborator and drone supplier to insurgents in the North-east region. Mr Gubula was arrested at a motor park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6414,4264,53709,23813,4265,257,4687,393,4401,254,6535,7846],"class_list":["post-224508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-boko","tag-collaborators","tag-drone","tag-haram","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supplier","tag-suspected"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}