Nigeria suicide bomber kills six

Boko Haram extremists slit the throats of 10 fishermen in villages near Baga on the shores of the Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, a leading fisherman and a resident said Thursday.

However Buhari has recently complained of a lack of resources, raising concerns over the force’s chances of defeating Boko Haram once and for all.

The state has been a staging ground for some of Boko Haram’s most vicious attacks and the group has repelled much of the Nigerian military’s offensive maneuvers.

In his remarks, Biya, while congratulating President Buhari on his successful inauguration into office, said his electoral victory had provided an opportunity for him to preside over the destiny of Nigeria.

Nigeria on Thursday named the head of a new multinational force created to fight Boko Haram jihadists carrying out a wave of attacks, as the country’s outgoing defence chief of staff warned its military was underfunded and poorly equipped.

The Gujba area of Yobe state, where Kukuwa-Gari village is located, has been hard hit by Boko Haram violence in the past, but has seen relative calm since troops reclaimed it in March.

“What the Nigerian military has been weak at doing, and I think the Boko Haram insurgency has exposed this, is dealing with asymmetrical war”, said Manji Cheto, vice president of Teneo Intelligence, a risk analysis organization in London.

A bomb blast rocks a big market in Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Borno State, amid a string of recent similar attacks targeting the country.

He also said military operations are still ongoing in many villages in the Lake Chad Basin region, including Koungya, Merikouta, Choua and Blarigui.

While the meeting appeared to soothe tensions between the two neighbours, analysts said the outcome was disappointingly vague about specifics for military cooperation.

This definition “opens civil society organisations and political parties to repression under the cover of (fighting) terrorism”, three Chadian unions said in a joint statement.

Efforts to rescue them have failed more than a year since their abduction.

The two presidents also agreed to strengthen security collaboration along their common border under the auspices of the Nigeria-Cameroon Trans-Border Security Committee.

However, businessman and ambassador for peace Ahmed Umar Bolori, who is based in Maiduguri, told IBTimes UK that the attack was actually carried out by two men who approached the market on a tricycle.