The terror group also claimed a policeman was killed on Saturday during an attack on a checkpoint in Geidam.

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has claimed that its fighters killed a soldier and a policeman during different attacks on security agencies’ checkpoints in Borno State.

According to ISWAP, the soldier was killed during an attack on a military checkpoint in Gamboru, Ngala Local Government Area of the state.

Gamboru, near Lake Chad, is a market town near the Cameroon border.

The terror group also claimed a policeman was killed on Saturday during an attack on a checkpoint in Geidam.

It added that it razed down an operational vehicle belonging to the police.

Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.

The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.

The Nigerian Army has repeatedly claimed that the insurgency has been largely defeated.

The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.