{"id":1782,"date":"2026-03-23T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:15:28","slug":"we-are-losing-too-much-the-killing-of-officers-is-becoming-unbearable-by-abubakar-m-kareto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/2026\/03\/23\/we-are-losing-too-much-the-killing-of-officers-is-becoming-unbearable-by-abubakar-m-kareto\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Losing Too Much: The killing of officers is becoming unbearable, by Abubakar M. Kareto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria has lost more than 100 soldiers in a few weeks of 2026 due to many attacks in the Northeast, according to a report published yesterday by Sahara Reporters (March 9), citing unnamed military sources. <br><br>This report is unquestionable; we have all witnessed ISWAP attack four bases (Konduga, Mainok, Jakana, and Marte) on March 5\u20136, as well as the Sambisa ambush on March 6 and Kukawa on March 8, which resulted in the deaths of named officers (2 Lt Cols, 2 Majors, etc.) and dozens more, with over 40 people reported missing and ISWAP footage showing captured vehicles and weapons.<br><br>The most recent occurrence involved an officer who has saved numerous towns in the Northeast and occurred in Kukawa LG.<br><br>FROM HERO TO MARTYR: Boko Haram assassinated Lt. Col. Umar Farouk after he freed Kukawa and other towns from terrorists. <br><br>The new chief of defence, army, and defence minister are not demonstrating workings; thus far, the situation is dire. They must awaken from their sleep and act quickly. We cannot keep losing officers to terrorist attacks.<br><br><strong><em>Abubakar M. Kareto is a Public Affairs Analyst<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has lost more than 100 soldiers in a few weeks of 2026 due to many attacks in the Northeast, according to a report published yesterday by Sahara Reporters (March 9), citing unnamed military sources. This report is unquestionable; we have all witnessed ISWAP attack four bases (Konduga, Mainok, Jakana, and Marte) on March 5\u20136, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}