Boko Haram leader Shekau says he is ‘still in charge’

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has refuted recent media reports of his death or replacement in an audio message.

The military spokesperson, Sani Kukasheka Usman, while responding to the recent audio released by Abubakar Shekau, said it does not matter at this phase whether Shekau is dead or alive, adding that the army is committed to ending the insurgency. “I will only die at the time Allah has assigned for me”.

Boko Haram has previously launched several attacks in Cameroon, ranging from kidnapping foreigners for ransom to assassinations, robberies, and targeting the Cameroonian military.

Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced Wednesday, fueling speculation the extremist group’s previous commander has been killed.

Cameroon has deployed thousands of soldiers in its northern border areas as part of a military operation aimed at curbing the spillover of violence from Boko Haram’s strongholds in northeast Nigeria.

The leader of Nigerian-based militant group Boko Haram has denied a claim by the president of Chad that he has been replaced.

“The activities of these misguided groups and individuals have resulted in wanton destruction of lives and properties of our citizens and a disruption of social economic lives of millions of Nigerians”, Buhari said.

The five-nation coalition is expected to be commanded by Maj. Abu Darda said: “Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them”.

Daud, aged around 38, is an ex-serviceman and protege of slain Boko Haram founder Muhammad Yusuf, who disagrees with the 2009 uprising and is “one of the few top dogs against the pledge of allegiance made to Islamic State”, Nasrullah says.

He said Nigerian authority ought to investigate the Chadian leader as his role in failed negotiation with a faction of Boko Haram early this year called for concern.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device strapped on her body near a market in the northeastern Nigerian State of Borno, killing at least three people, police and civilian vigilante sources said on Saturday.

Facts that the US might start sending arms to Nigeria came on the heels of the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle’s revelation in an interview with one of our correspondents that the US government never placed arms embargo on Nigeria.