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.
http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/flash-boko-haran-armym-now-has-an-army-defence-minister/

This is making the claims of FG an irony.

A group that had been technically defeated, decimated, and even confined noe has an ARMY?

But here in Nigeria our stupid president n useless army are busy retiring gud army officers on ground of partisan corruption they bribe d press not 2let Nigerians knw d truth about bokoharam lets c hw dis goes yeye govt