Tell Us How a ‘Technically Defeated’ Boko Haram Attacked Borno,Adamawa

In the most recent attacks, two young female suicide bombers detonated explosives in a crowded Madagali market, killing 30 people.

In the northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, at least 30 were killed and more than 90 wounded in overnight blasts and shootouts, while another 20 died in a bombing outside a mosque at dawn on Monday, said Muhammed Kanar, area coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency.

In October, Buhari gave his military chiefs a three-month deadline to put down Boko Haram.

A resident in the Ushari Bulabulin district of Maiduguri, who asked not to be named, told the BBC Hausa Service that on Monday morning a woman was standing in a crowd of people waiting to pass through security before entering a mosque. Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria since 2009, killing over 20,000 and spreading into Cameroon, Niger, and Chad.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had also dared the minister to relocate to Borno State in order to prove to Nigerians that Boko Haram had been defeated.

At least 14 people were killed, dozens injured and an entire village burned down in an attack perpetrated on Christmas day by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. Soldiers engaged them, and as people were fleeing, a woman ran into the area yelling: “Boko Haram, Boko Haram”.

The United States has denounced the terror attacks Boko Haram has recently perpetrated in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.

They are deceiving Nigerians while diverting the Security Vote under the pretence of fighting Boko Haram insurgency.

But for military intelligence and luck, Boko Haram almost had Maiduguri pencilled down for a massive massacre through suicide bombing.

Back in November, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas of the Center for Crisis Communication shot down hopes that the militants would be defeated by December, calling the target date “not tenable” since Boko Haram continues its attacks.

Governor Fayose, who urged the APC-led federal government to stop deceiving Nigerians, especially on the Boko Haram insurgency and its anti-corruption fight said; “This governance by deceit must stop”. A soldier who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to reporters said troops fired against the militants who were firing rocket-propelled grenades and many people were caught in the crossfire.

As 2015 draws to a close and the new year draw closer, we can’t help but remember some drama that took place in Nigeria during the year and got a lot of people talking.

An 8,700-strong Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) compromising troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin was supposed to be deployed earlier this year, but little has been heard about its activities.