Heartbreaking new details have emerged revealing that Brigadier-General Oseni Braimah was killed during a terrorist assault on his base in Borno State while in the middle of a late-night phone call with his twin brother.
Tragic new details have surfaced regarding the final moments of Brigadier-General Oseni Braimah, the Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade, who was killed during a midnight terrorist assault on his headquarters in Benisheikh, Borno State, on April 9, 2026. Reports indicate that the Edo State-born senior officer was engaged in a routine late-night phone call with his identical twin brother, who resides in the United Kingdom, when the attack commenced. The conversation, a daily ritual for the close-knit siblings, was abruptly severed as the base came under heavy fire, leaving the overseas relative in a state of desperate uncertainty for hours before official confirmation of the General’s death arrived.
A family member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the harrowing sequence of events that unfolded as the twins spoke past midnight. The relative noted that the General paused mid-sentence due to “unusual movement” before the connection was lost entirely. “They started speaking after midnight, as usual, when, suddenly, the General paused, apparently because of some unusual movement at his end. After that, the line went dead,” the source revealed. Despite the twin brother’s frantic attempts to reconnect via calls and messages until 4:00 am, he was met with silence, only to be informed by a senior Army officer at 6:30 am that the base had been overrun and his brother was among the fallen.
The death of Brigadier-General Braimah, who has since been buried alongside other soldiers in Maiduguri, has sparked a wave of grief and renewed scrutiny over the security vulnerabilities plaguing Nigeria’s North-East. The loss is being felt deeply by a family that shared an extraordinary bond, with the relative struggling to process the sudden tragedy. “The officer said the base was under attack and communication had broken down. That was how I heard that some soldiers had been killed and that the Brigade Commander, my brother, was among them. It is heartbreaking,” the source added. The incident remains a somber reminder of the persistent threats faced by military personnel operating on the front lines of the insurgency.
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