He spoke on Tuesday at one of the sessions at the ongoing annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Port Harcourt, adding that Sheriff’s over his alleged role in the emergence of Boko Haram will assuage the feelings of millions that have been dislocated by the terrorist actions of the dreaded Islamic group in one way or the other.
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The shallow Lake Chad, which is located on the southern edge of Sahara, borders Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
The military said an “unprecedented and spectacular air raid” had hit the militants as they were performing Friday prayers in the sprawling Sambisa forest, the main base for a jihadist insurgency that is estimated to have left some 20,000 people dead and one million homeless.
Barnawi’s appointment was contained in a magazine issued by the Islamic State group, to which Boko Haram pledged allegiance in March previous year.
Dozens of current and former officials have been detained since Buhari took office, but Mumuni said court cases are being delayed by a corrupt justice system.
At the start of 2015, Boko Haram occupied an area the size of Belgium but has since been pushed back over the last 18 months by military assaults by the four countries.
Officials from Cameroon, Chad, Niger, France, Britain and the US gathered in Nigeria in May to discuss the campaign, which the Obama administration has backed with roughly $200 million in humanitarian assistance for Boko Haram-affected populations in the region. However, Kerry made no public mention of the military’s announcement.
UNICEF officials say they have recorded 38 cases of child suicide bombings this year. But such sales were halted during the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan amid corruption concerns and reports that Nigerian troops had carried out flagrant rights abuses against captured insurgents and innocents deemed to be backing Boko Haram.
Nigeria has made “important progress”, Kerry said.
“But extremism can’t be defeated through repression or fear”.
The much-needed support from the United States comes as Nigeria is heading into a likely recession and is wrestling with a growing humanitarian crisis in the north.
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Nigeria’s military said 300 insurgents in total were killed including several senior fighters in a raid on north-eastern Borno state. “Values that the terrorists don’t just ignore, my friends, but values that they desecrate and try to destroy at every turn that they can”.
