The United Kingdom is offering further assistance to Nigeria to help achieve her objective of defeating Boko Haram by December.
UK's Chief of Defense Staff, Gen Nicholas Houghton disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Gen Houghton said he was in Nigeria to see how UK could help the country to optimize the support that would be coming from the British government.
He said ;
“My concern is in the security situation, in particular the war being waged by Boko Haram.
“I think that Nigerian armed forces have made some remarkable progress in the last few months in pushing Boko Haram back.
“But as it comes to the end of the rainy season, I know the President has got a very strong ambitions to what he can achieve by Christmas, it shows because the UK has a strong support for your troops training just to make sure we optimise our support and that is the best way we can help.”
He said that the security concerns in Nigeria are shared by the global community which is why the United Kingdom wants to intensify her support for Nigeria.
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