Twenty prominent members of the militant Islamist group "boko haram', where arrested on Sunday by Nigeria's security agency.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari strives to halt Boko haram's six-year-old insurgency a priority, but according the report shows the militants have killed more than 700 people in Nigeria in bomb attacks and shootings since he came to office on May 29,2015.
The Department of State Services (DSS) said on Sunday that 20 "notable commanders and frontline members" of the jihadist group had been arrested in Lagos, Kano, Plateau, Enugu and Gombe states between July 8 and Aug. 25 this year.
The DSS said it had arrested those suspected of coordinating attacks earlier this year in the northern cities of Potiskum, Kano and Zaria, as well as the central city of Jos, adding that a number of them had made confessions.
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