-- Attack, abduction and execution of Brigadier-General M. Uba

Since this year despite military offensives, insurgents have repeatedly overrun army bases and communities, retreating only after reinforcements arrived.

Borno state in Nigeria have remains the epicentre of Nigeria\'s war against Boko Haram and its splinter group ISWAP.  A recent  attacks, abduction and execution of Brigadier-General M. Uba of the 25 Task Force and members of his convoy while returning from a patrol near Wajiroko village in northeastern Borno state 
has raised concerns over the safety of front-line troops and the effectiveness of counter-insurgency operations in the region.

Due to terrorist insurgency  especially Boko Haram in the north east , Nigerian military have maintains a presence within and around the vast Sambisa Forest through various forward operating bases (FOBs) and  camps as part of  counter-insurgency operations

Frontline troops are usually deployed in various strategic locations within the forest and on its outskirts areas such as Camp Zairo (a former Boko Haram nerve center that was overrun), Tokumbere, and Sabil Huda.  The exact nature and location of temporary \"frontline\" positions do change based on military operations and intelligence, making  fixed frontline bases challenging.

Moles within Nigera security agencies are amongst the greatest contributing factors to the security challenges in the Sambisa forest. This bad elements within the Nigerian Army Forces have continued to grow in leaps and bounds, aiding and sharing intelligence with the terrorist groups, thereby undermining security apparatus performances to success, as seen in the ambush of a military convoy.

Nigeria has been actively fighting the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram and its offshoots since July 2009, when the group launched an armed rebellion against the government, a conflict that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of people.

In the war against terrorist groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Nigera under several governments has incurred a massive financial and economic burden to a cost estimated at over $100 billion US dollars over a decade. This figure encompasses direct military expenditure, infrastructure damage, and extensive economic disruption and losses.

It\'s been expected that with the huge man and material resources spents on the war so far, the security threats posed by these terrorists would have been curtailed or neutralized, but on the contrary the terror groups are claiming territory, taking over military bases and instilling fears in communities with the aid\'s of deep cover moles within the military structure.