Niger’s defence minister, Hassoumi Messaoudou, told Radio France International on Friday that regional leaders needed to “rethink Boko Haram” and called on regional forces to defeat the group in Nigeria.

“We thought they were reduced to making suicide attacks,” he said. “Now they have rebuilt their military forces. We are dealing with an army.”

Messaoudou spoke after Boko Haram militants attacked a village in Niger while a delegation of ministers were visiting, killing seven gendarmes and wounding 12 in a gun battle.

The attack happened on Thursday in a village in the region of Diffa that hosts refugees and internally displaced people who have been forced from their home by the Islamist insurgents, officials said.
The ministers were unharmed.

Neighbouring Chad has sent troops to help Niger in a planned counterattack against Boko Haram after the militants seized the southern Niger town of Bosso in an attack that killed 26 soldiers.

Niger’s government has called on former colonial power France, which already has 3,500 troops spread across five countries in West Africa, to strengthen military operations against the Nigeria-based Boko Haram and other militants.

wowmenow:
Useless people so Niger don't know Boko haram have soldiers from inception

When they connive with buhari to use Boko haram and the fake chibok girls to Harras Jonathan they don't know.

Anybody that Harras Jonathan will be deft

wowmenow:
Useless people so Niger don't know Boko haram have soldiers from inception

When they connive with buhari to use Boko haram and the fake chibok girls to Harras Jonathan they don't know.

Anybody that Harras Jonathan will be deft

code11:
This is what happens when you have a bunch of people who are so gullible and vulnerable to brain washing. Am not surprised they now have an army... FG has been concentrating of fighting in the Niger Delta thus neglecting the fragile fragment of the North.

I just remembered BuBus statement that he will make Goodlucks government ungovernable... Hehehe he now who's government is ungovernable? The Nigerian military has out of corruption denied soldiers weapons, how then do we fight insurgency?

mrvitalis:

Am igbo, and I know hausa fulani have their problem
But the way we feel so insecure about them will even give them the audacity to act the way they do
Jonathan failed cos he never wanted power and we forced it on him, that's it Dont blame Jonathan failure on any group
Bokoharam stopped him in the North East.... ok what about the remaining five regions? ? What stopped him at least there was enough money

houstonia:


Have you ever been president? I mean of any group? Even departmental president?

Let a group stand against you in just a single section you will know what it means to be antagonised.

wowmenow:
Useless people so Niger don't know Boko haram have soldiers from inception

When they connive with buhari to use Boko haram and the fake chibok girls to Harras Jonathan they don't know.

Anybody that Harras Jonathan will be deft

mrvitalis:

Am igbo, and I know hausa fulani have their problem
But the way we feel so insecure about them will even give them the audacity to act the way they do
Jonathan failed cos he never wanted power and we forced it on him, that's it Dont blame Jonathan failure on any group
Bokoharam stopped him in the North East.... ok what about the remaining five regions? ? What stopped him at least there was enough money

mrvitalis:

I have a handled so many leadership positions even in sec school

Truth is not every one is born to be a leader, and it was obvious Jonathan was not.. .. he was just forced to take power all his life

Those who don't want power don't have any idea what to do with it

mrvitalis:

Am igbo, and I know hausa fulani have their problem
But the way we feel so insecure about them will even give them the audacity to act the way they do
Jonathan failed cos he never wanted power and we forced it on him, that's it Dont blame Jonathan failure on any group
Bokoharam stopped him in the North East.... ok what about the remaining five regions? ? What stopped him at least there was enough money

mrvitalis:
An army should have a Base and if boko haram comes to conventional warfare with the Nigerian military.. .. . Hallelujah it won't take 6 hrs trust me

No body can defeat the spirit of Nigeria

mrvitalis:

Am igbo, and I know hausa fulani have their problem
But the way we feel so insecure about them will even give them the audacity to act the way they do
Jonathan failed cos he never wanted power and we forced it on him, that's it Dont blame Jonathan failure on any group
Bokoharam stopped him in the North East.... ok what about the remaining five regions? ? What stopped him at least there was enough money

onespecial:
someone said he will lead the war against book haram and a pastor echoed it better by shouting that the General will less the war against boko. one wonders if they saw these boko terrorists in NigerDelta.
Someone pls tell the dullards that book are in Northeast and not Nigerdelta or petroleum sector. what a government !
In an Igbo conmounity, someone like buhari will dream forever without realizing it to become a president, but where we have Yoruba's and Hausa's in same community anything can happen.