The Nigeria Police Force has said it has information on the United States airstrikes carried out against terrorists in Sokoto State, but will not make such details public.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, stated this on Tuesday during Channels Television’s Politics Today, saying the police would not comment on the operation.
“We engage a lot in intelligence gathering, not just intelligence sharing. As the Police Force, we know certain things about the strikes, but we don’t want to talk about them. We decline to talk about that particular operation,” Hundeyin said.
He added that the operation involved cooperation with other agencies, but should be addressed by defence authorities.
“There was a cooperation, but we would rather leave it as a defence matter that the defence would talk about,” he stated.
The comments followed United States airstrikes carried out in Sokoto State on December 25, 2025.
The U.S. Department of Defence said “multiple ISIS terrorists” were killed in the strikes, which it said were conducted at the request of the Nigerian government.
On January 11, 2026, footage showed that many terrorists were killed during the U.S. airstrikes, while their hideouts and vehicles were destroyed.
The video showed three separate strikes carried out between December 24 and 25, 2025, with a secondary explosion observed after the first strike, suggesting the presence of explosive materials.
The footage also captured suspected terrorists fleeing the area after the initial bombardment.
The PUNCH