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engreo:
hahahaha! I knw what u are thinking, that name sound like someone from ur tribe ba? Obe is a yoruba name o, u can also check the names of their kids...ayoola, tola and timi

megawax8:
To every NLder that has made 2015 FUNtastic for me either online or offline, this is for you

Csami
Sleekyonyx
Owliver
Misspetit
Mizmycoli
specialist900 (still driving bro, would be home soon....lol)
erisegun
endee91
HFOG
kalani
laurence1
cordss
xsanctus
Uncle naptu2, i've sure learnt alot.
Lalasticlala and seun.....God bless and keep you.

A very merry christmas to you....God bless you all.

Merry christmas to every NairaLander.

[size=14pt]' Boko Haram can no longer attack towns '[/size]

When he came to power earlier this year, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to wipe out by the end of 2015 the Islamist group Boko Haram which is accused of numerous human rights abuses. It now looks like the deadline will not be met. So the BBC correspondent Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar met President Buhari and started by asking him if he had failed in the fight against the insurgents in northeastern Nigeria.

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( Photo: Nigerian troops celebrate after taking over the northeastern town of Bama from Boko Haram on March 25, 2015. Photo: Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)

When ur adversary takes a lull to restrategize & u announced victory, u r not only exposing lack of intelligenz but endangering ur citizens.

The FG shouldn't make pronouncemnts frm Abj that will further put d lives of villagers at risk, villagrs, they alwys cover up their plights.

Keystonn:
Bokoharam is an Islamic terrorist set

Not militants

Pls this is an insult on we nigerdeltans

Nigerian President @MBuhari tells BBC "technically we have won the war" against Boko Haram

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[size=14pt]Nigeria Boko Haram: Militants 'close to defeat' - Buhari[/size]

24 December 2015 - Africa

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The Nigerian military is close to completely defeating Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari has told the BBC.

He said the militants could no longer mount conventional attacks against security forces or population centres.

"I think, technically, we have won the war," he said.

The president has given the army until the end of the month to defeat Boko Haram, whose six-year insurgency has devastated north-eastern Nigeria.

But the BBC's Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi in the capital, Abuja, says that the deadline is likely to be extended as Boko Haram is still bombing areas despite losing towns under its control.

Critics of the government argue that it has exaggerated the scale of its success against the militants, and that each time the army claims to have wiped out Boko Haram, the militants have quietly rebuilt.

The insurgency is said to have killed some 17,000 people and left more than two million homeless.

The jihadists have been forced to cut back on suicide bombings as a result of the military action against them, President Buhari said.

"Boko Haram has reverted to using improvised explosive devices (IEDs)," he said. "They have now been reduced to that."

"Boko Haram is an organised fighting force, I assure you, [but] we have dealt with them."

He said the militants had all but been driven out from Adamawa and Yobe states and remained a force only in its heartland of Borno state.

"They cannot now marshal forces and attack towns or attack military installations and so on as they did before.

"I don't think this is mad talking."

The president said that Nigeria had reorganised and reequipped the military. which had received training from the British, the Americans and the French.

"A lot is being done," he said.

@iykimo how difficult to have civil discuss here. I said nothing about 2016 budget which I have not even seen. Said I avoid budget discuss

@iykimo how difficult to have civil discuss here. I said nothing about 2016 budget which I have not even seen. Said I avoid budget discuss

The reason I have avoided budget discussions in more 20yrs is that the process has become a joke in Nigeria. So how is that about 2016 budgt

jesuloluwa2010:
AIT has bn politicalised and as such,can NEVER win d award.Mitv is too local&unprofessional to come near.Galaxy Tv is way behind and NTA,govt station.Indeed,only two tv stations exist in Nigeria:Channels tv and others

Lyoncrescent:
In terms of the election coverage,TVC News was way way better. They had video coverage in almost all the states where elections were held. When TVC was showing live coverage of happenings in the INEC Center in Rivers State, Channels was busy showing audio phone call with their own respondents on ground. If you truly followed the elections, you would agree TVC did a much better job. I found myself ditching dstv to my local antenna just to have access to TVC.

Dilemma however is that TVC is not on DSTV and as a result of that, i have not had any cause to watch them since after the election to do a more thorough comparison with channels tv. TVC should work on joining dstv so as to also be viewed nationally as i am not so sure TVC is avalaible in all 36 states and the FCT on local antenna whereas being on dstv will give them that