President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said the nation would soon see the back of the Boko Haram insurgents as the military was now better equipped to take on the terrorist group.

He promised that all territories captured by the violent sect would soon be liberated.

Jonathan, who paid a surprise visit to Maiduguri, the capital of the troubled Borno State, gave this assurance during a visit to the victims of the Baga attacks, who are accommodated at an Internally Displaced Persons camp at the Teachers Village, MaiduguriHe said briefings from the service chiefs showed that the 10 local government areas under Boko Haram’s control would soon be recaptured by the Nigerian military.

“Let me assure you that we will soon take over all the areas. From the briefings I have received from the service chiefs, I assure you we will take over the towns and communities,” the president said during the visit.

Punch

 

Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, Senator Bukola Saraki and ex-Sports minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday passed a damning verdict on President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

The trio accused the Peoples Democratic Party led government of impoverishing Nigerians.

They spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, at presentation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for the 2015 elections in the state.

Abdullahi said Nigerians are more economically impoverished than six or seven years ago, adding that yet they claimed that “our economy is improving.”

Nation

 

President Goodluck Jonathan has just arrived in Maidugiri, the Borno State capital.

Maiduguri has been a hotbed of violence with the Boko Haram Islamic militants carrying out deadly attacks which has claimed the lives of thousand of people.

Accompanying the president is the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshall Alex Badeh and the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Both were said to have arrived the airport in a separate aircraft

YNaija