Nigerian president says multinational force to take on Boko Haram extremists

Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 20 people including multiple children in their latest attack on northern Cameroon, easily overwhelming the few soldiers posted at the targeted village, residents said Monday.

“We are not also oblivious of the fact that while the culprits found culpable in the United States of America (USA) in the Halliburton bribe scandal case were decisively prosecuted by the United States Government and those found culpable were jailed, on the Nigerian side, the Nigerian authorities sweep the matter under the carpet with the kangaroo trial of one of the alleged culprits”.

The World Bank has unfolded a package which would see it spending up to $2.1 billion in rebuilding the badly devastated North-eastern part of Nigeria, ravaged for the past six years by the Boko Haram insurgency.

Dozens of the schoolgirls escaped in the days after the abduction, but 219 remain missing.

“And he has a very clear agenda in terms of rooting out the corruption that too often has held back the economic growth and prosperity of his country“.

“On extradition, we already have a treaty with USA By virtue of being a former British colonial territory”, the statement said. We will be willing to negotiate what they want.

“We will set specific timelines and milestones to be achieved; look at gaps in the ongoing efforts and do all that are needful, with the support of government, to address these gaps especially in the areas of actionable intelligence, logistics, communication and other critical equipment”.

Jonathan, furious over the country’s refusal to sell government helicopter gunships to him, stalled a USA military training program.

The Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than 15,000 people in Nigeria since 2009. Such concerns prompted Washington previous year to block the sale of US attack helicopters. The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai renamed the operational code for the ongoing war on the Boko Haram from Zaman Lafiya (Living in Peace) to Lafiya Dole (Peace a Must) during his tour of the military formations in the troubled Northeastern region of the country.

The oil sector provides Nigeria’s government with roughly 70 percent of its revenue, and the slump in crude oil prices since past year has hit The economy hard.