Terrorism: Buhari issues fresh order to Service Chiefs, gives deadline to end Boko Haram, ISWAP

The service chiefs yesterday got a fresh marching order from President Muhammadu Buhari to crush the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), which has overtaken Boko Haram in the North East insurgency, before he leaves office in 2023. Buhari handed down the order at a meeting of the Security Council in Abuja 24 hours after the group rained rockets close to the Maiduguri airport shortly before the President arrived in the city. Several people were killed by the rockets. Police Inspector General Alkali Baba Usman said some of the masterminds of the attack have been eliminated. And in his

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