Terrorists attacked a military convoy in Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region, killing 15 soldiers and four Joint Task Force members.
Army spokesman Mohammed Yerima said in a statement that several soldiers were also injured in the attack.
On Thursday, Nigeria's National Security Adviser Babagana Monguno announced that his country would not negotiate with the terror group and the government does not see negotiations as a means to deal with the worsening security conditions in the country.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a military response.
More than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram's terror activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Violence has affected 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.6 million others, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
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At least 30 students were yet to be accounted for after Nigerian troops rescued 180 persons following gunmen attack on a college in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria, according to a internal security official in the state on Friday.
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"The armed bandits broke into the institution by breaching a perimeter fence. They then encroached about 600 meters to attack the first facility," Aruwan said.
He said troops of the Nigerian army immediately moved to the school on receiving a distress call, and engaged the gunmen.