that Bako George is going to replace him. On May 14 it was reported that MNJTF airstrikes killed two prominent ISWAP leaders, Bako Gorgore and Aba-Ibrahim in Lake Chad. On May 16 radical preacher and leader of Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, Alhaji Ari-Difinoma has surrendered to Nigerian troops. On May 23 Boko Haram fighters killed around 40 farmers. On May 30 The MNJTF troops from Nigeria and Chad, alongside Operation HADIN KAI, stormed the general area of Tumbun Rago, Tumbun Dilla and Jamina settlements and succeeded in eliminating over 25 terrorists. The troops also recovered one AK-47 rifle, one anti-aircraft gun, and hundreds of assorted ammunition. A group of hunters ambushed and killed a Boko Haram commander and his deputy while wounding several of their escaping fighters. On 9 April ISWAP commander Abubakar Dan-Buduma and other terrorists were killed in Operations by the MNJTF. On 1 June A rivalry clash between ISWAP and the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has led to the killing of a commander by the name Ummate Ma, and scores of his fighters. On 5 June members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo town in Ondo State, Nigeria, (located 345 kilometres (215 miles) east of Lagos) killing at least 50 parishioners and injuring a further 87 congregants. On 7 June it was reported that the MNJTF said it killed 805 jihadis on Lake Chad's islands and neighboring areas between March 28 and June 4. On 3 August it was reported that military airstrikes killed Boko Haram commander, Alhaji Modu and 27 other terrorists on Mandara Mountain in Gwoza local government area of Borno State. On 10 August it was reported that bombardments by two Nigerian Air Force fighter jets have killed many terrorists, among them a terrorist leader, operating in Kaduna State, Alhaji Shanono. According to a military source, the terrorist were caught off guard during a battle between ISWAP and Boko Haram. On 6 August Abdulkarim Faca-Faca, who was among the masterminds of the attack on President Muhammadu Buhari's advance convoy to Katsina, has been killed along with eight of his gang members by air strikes. On 16 August The Chadian army said it killed ten Boko Haram terrorists during clashes around Bol in the Lake Chad area. On 23 August troops of the Nigerian Air Force have bombarded the enclave of an ISWAP