Boko Haram the deadliest terrorist group

In June President Muhammadu Buhari’s promised to restore peace to the country by December, but air commodore Yusuf Anas, of the Center for Crisis Communication, told the Associated Press the deadline was “not tenable”.

Buhari has given his military commanders until next month to bring Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency to an end but there has been waves of bombings, mainly against civilian “soft” targets.

The French government declared its readiness to engage in the war against Boko Haram as one of its plan to fight global terrorism. “They will no longer be able to launch the kind of attacks that would allow them to seize land”. “It doesn’t happen anywhere”.

Soldiers patrol along Niger’s border with Nigeria, near the south-eastern city of Bosso, on May 25, 2015.

Thousands of villagers have been forced to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighboring cities and countries.

He also revealed that after the military released the list of 100 most wanted Boko Haram terrorists, five of them have so far been arrested at various locations in collaboration with other security agencies.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the visit was a fall out of recent coordinated attacks in parts of Paris by ISIS that resulted in the death of 130 people.

Manji Cheto, vice president of London-based political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence, says that the Buhari administration had promised to prevent asymmetric attacks like those in Kano and Yola, so it can’t claim to have defeated the militant group if those types of incidents continue.

Gomert said that the he was in the country to discuss the issue of the Boko Haram and intelligence gathering with a view to defeat the terrorists.

The Nigerian terror group, recently identified as the world’s deadliest, operates within Nigeria but has expanded in the past year to stage attacks on neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.