“Today we are on a self-declared holiday to welcome the president until after the visit. Everyone on our street has closed his shop to welcome the president; we are so proud of him to have restored relative peace to the Northeast.” Habu Habibu, electric materials dealer in Damaturu (21 January 2019)

El-Kanemi Warriors Football Club returned to their home
base in Maiduguri in April 2016, two years after relocating to
Katsina State because of the insurgency

Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
Borno State Chapter declared the 2017 Easter
Celebrations as the best and safest since 2009.

Arik Air resumed flights to Maiduguri in May 2017, three
years after suspending operations to the city.

Nigerian Military reopened Maiduguri-Bama-Banki Road in
March 2018, four years after it was seized by Boko Haram.

Emirs of Askira and Uba returned home in May 2016, two
years after fleeing their Palaces on account of the Boko
Haram insurgency

Public Secondary Schools resumed in Borno State on
Monday September 26, 2016, after two years of closure

Maiduguri-Gubio and Maiduguri-Monguno Roads reopened
in December 2016, after being closed for three years.

Capture of Boko Haram’s operational and spiritual headquarters, “Camp Zero”, in Sambisa Forest, in December 2016. Following this the Nigerian Army conducted its Small Arms Championship from 26th to 31st March 2017,

Revitalization of the Multi-National Joint Task Force
(MNJTF), aimed at combating trans-border crime and the
Boko Haram insurgency.

Establishment of a Naval Outpost in the Lake Chad Basin.