Military arrests 10 Boko Haram suspects in Jigawa

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the military a three month timeline to end the insurgency. “We must make our country men and women proud”.

The UN Security Council condemned the terrorist attacks in Chad and Cameroon attributed to Boko Haram, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

On Sunday, two female suicide bombers killed at least eleven people in northern Cameroon’s Kangaleri. The insurgency has claimed at least 17,000 lives since 2009. Bans on concealing clothes, searches and close scrutiny have prevented a few attacks, but others come without warning. Paris has deployed a strong military presence on the ground, including Operation Barkhane, with its headquarters in the Chadian capital N’Djamena, set up to fight jihadists in the Sahel.

Though Fouda would not specify how many vehicles were donated, a Cameroon state media report said there were six in total and that they had previously been used in Afghanistan. The Nigerian Army and indeed the military as the symbol of our nationhood is being challenged. The pilotless aircraft will now also be monitoring Boko Haram.

Johns Hopkins University Professor and military historian Michael Vlahos told Sputnik that the United States deployment of military personnel to Cameroon might be prudent move to demonstrate U.S. resolve in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists.

Falana also presented several statements from officers and soldiers who repeatedly stated that the army was ill-equipped to fight Boko Haram, an assertion that was later affirmed by a former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, shortly after he was sacked from that position earlier this year.