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Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by Adefaze(m): 8:02am On May 30, 2015
Apparently excited by the emergence of
Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new President,
United Kingdom has openly declared its
readiness to work closely with Nigeria to end its
security and economic challenges. To start with,
Britain says it is going to spearhead the group of
seven developed nations (G-7 nations) to rally
necessary support for Buhari to crush
insurgency in Nigeria without further delay.

British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond,
announced the new posture of his country
towards Nigeria while speaking with Vanguard in
Abuja on Friday shortly after attending Buhari’s
inauguration as Nigeria’s 5th civilian president.
Hammond led British delegation to witness the
swearing in of Buhari, who only returned to
Nigeria on the eve of his inauguration, where he
had gone to rub minds with Prime Minister,
David Cameron, at Number 10 Downing Street.
The foreign secretary said that apart from
discussing Boko Haram challenges in G7 meeting
coming up later, Britain was ready to provide
the Nigerian armed forces with needed technical
and surveillance equipment and training to be
able to combat the menace of insurgency.
According to him, it is imperative that Boko
Haram must be crushed in order to give the
new administration the opportunity to settle
down and tackle the economic development of
Nigeria and give succour to the citizens.
Hammond said: “The emergence of Buhari has
given us a new opportunity to help Nigeria with
both technical and surveillance support to tackle
the problems of Boko Haram. “But we can only
do that if the Nigerian armed forces comply with
human rights requirements. Happily BUhari has
given us that assurance and we are going to
help Nigeria in any way possible to tackle its
problems.
The foreign secretary announced that with
Nigeria/British trade volume peaking at £7 billion
per year, Britain was ready to drive more
investments into Nigeria to help boost its
economy and stabilise the country, using
Nigerian businessmen in the UK as the vehicle.
Hammond said that Britain was excited about
what he called “Buhari’s realistic agenda” to
tackle the economic and socio-economic
challenges so as to give hope to the masses.
Saturday Vanguard learnt that the dispatch of
Hammond by David Cameron to attend Buhari’s
inauguration marked the beginning of fresh level
of cooperation between Nigeria and Britain in
recent years. The relationship between the two
countries hit the rocks following the alleged
refusal by the European nation to sell military
hardwares to Nigeria to tackle insurgency on the
allegation that Nigerian troops could use them to
commit human rights abuses.
Before Hammond’s visit on Thursday, the last
British Foreign Secretary to visit Nigeria was Jack
Straw about nine years ago.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/britain-announces-fresh-support-for-buhari-to-end-boko-haram/
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by snazzy5050(m): 8:03am On May 30, 2015
Great
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by saintfizzo(m): 8:05am On May 30, 2015
#smiles....
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by saintfizzo(m): 8:05am On May 30, 2015
#smiles....
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by DaBullIT(m): 8:06am On May 30, 2015
First major news after inauguration is support from international community



Someone's first major news was subsidy and protests


Khaki nor be leather

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Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by LuckyLadolce(m): 8:06am On May 30, 2015
grin
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by kelvyn7: 8:07am On May 30, 2015
we no need announcement, make Una do am jorr
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by alberto2k(m): 8:08am On May 30, 2015
GMB is now in office undecided


Right now Boko boiz are about to pee in their pants grin grin

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Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by Elslim: 8:10am On May 30, 2015
our colonial masters r coming home....
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by nerodenero: 8:24am On May 30, 2015
At what cost? Nice development but PMB should be careful with these whites. It's always about their own interests.
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by sammyj: 8:30am On May 30, 2015
Good coming from our big brother!! smiley
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by BENZINA(m): 9:04am On May 30, 2015
Britain, what went wrong with the first support you gave to Gej in other to quell the Boko haram insurgents ?
Re: Britain Announces Fresh Support For Buhari To End Boko Haram by 9jii(m): 9:10am On May 30, 2015
Nobody wanted to work with Clueless

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