Boko Haram: Buhari holds talk with NSA; to visit Niger, Chad, Wednesday, Thursday

With strong determination to end the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari will on Wednesday
and Thursday visit the Republics of Niger and Chad respectively.

The trip which would be Buhari’s first foreign movement since he assumed office on May 29 was Monday confirmed
to Journalists by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu.

According to Shehu, Buhari will first visit Niger on Wednesday, pass the night there before proceeding to Chad republic on Thursday.

“The president has Niger and chad ahead of him. This will be his first trip outside the country in obvious matters of
security”, he said.

It will be recalled that Buhari on his Inauguration Day promised to tackle insecurity head on.

Meanwhile, the president held a closed door meeting with the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd)
at Defence.

Details of the meeting were not made available as the NSA refused to comment on the subject of the meeting when
asked by Journalists.