Nigeria’s president has finally broken his silence about the deaths of dozens of soldiers killed by Islamist militants a week ago in the northeastern state of Borno.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s office issued a statement Saturday, saying that he had “expressed deep shock over the killing of military personnel.”
“Immediate measures are being taken to ensure that the loopholes which led to the fatalities are blocked once and for all,” according to the statement. Read more