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Publisher (J.T)
June 1, 2019
Nigeria is expected to host leaders of the LakeBasin Commission on a Security Summit on the sidelines of President MuhammaduBuhari forthcoming Second Term inaugural ceremonies slated for June
Buhari made this known during a bilateral meetingwith the Chadian President Idris Deby Itno in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on thesidelines of the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC onSaturday.
According to the President, the summit is to come upwith new strategies to bring to a permanent end, the Boko Haram terrorism beingfaced by the countries of the Lake Chad region.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Mediaand Publicity Garba Shehu, in a statement said the two Presidents agreed that“the time has now come for the regional leaders to sit down to agree on how tochange the unwinding nature of the war.
Buhari noted that now that elections were over andhe is now back in full force, it was time for “a new way forward that removescompletely’’ the threat of terrorism from the Lake Chad sub-region.