{"id":240809,"date":"2026-08-10T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-soldiers-repel-midnight-terror-attack-in-borno\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:43:07","slug":"nigeria-soldiers-repel-midnight-terror-attack-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-soldiers-repel-midnight-terror-attack-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Soldiers Repel Midnight Terror Attack in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Nigerian Army had not officially confirmed the attack, the number of casualties or the soldiers&#8217; claims that several insurgents were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Soldiers have repelled an overnight attack by suspected members of Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), two terror groups menacing Nigeria&#8217;s northeast. They had attacked a military base in Gajiram, headquarters of Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to Sahara Reporters, the attack occurred at about 1 a.m. on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608100625.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The Nigerian Army had not officially confirmed the attack, the number of casualties or the soldiers&#8217; claims that several insurgents were killed. Soldiers have repelled an overnight attack by suspected members of Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), two terror groups menacing Nigeria&#8217;s northeast. They had attacked a military base in Gajiram, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,1398,375,30791,257,4687,393,17597,4401,254,5045],"class_list":["post-240809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-borno","tag-midnight","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-repel","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240809","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=240809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}