BREAKING NEWS: FG REACHES A CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT WITH BOKO HARAM

The Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, has ordered all service chiefs to comply with the ceasefire agreement between Nigeria and Boko Haram in all theaters of operations.

The Principal Private Secretary to the President, Ambassador Hassan Tukur, met with Chadian Government officials as well as representatives of the Boko Haram sect in N’Djamena, Chad on Friday morning.

Securing the release of the 219 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram was a major part of the discussions. Details of the condition for this deal will come later. Meanwhile it was reported that a meeting between high-powered government delegation as well as representatives of Boko Haram were meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss among other things a ceasefire agreement and the release of the over 200 Chibok girl kidnapped by the insurgent group.

The Boko Haram sect was represented by Danladi Ahmadu at the meeting.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram is in talks with the federal government to release
more than 200 girls abducted six months ago and negotiate a cease-fire to a deadly
insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.
An adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan and a man calling himself the secretary-
general of Boko Haram told VOA Thursday that discussions are under way in Saudi
Arabia, aided by high level officials from Chad and Cameroon.
Boko Haram’s Danladi Ahmadu, who is in Saudi Arabia, said the girls are “in good
condition and unharmed.”
Ahmadu would not elaborate on the conditions under which the girls would be freed.
Riyadh is not involved in the negotiations.
On April 14, dozens of Boko Haram fighters stormed a secondary school in the remote
northeastern village of Chibok, kidnapping around 270 girls. Fifty-seven managed to
escape.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau later threatened to sell the remainder as slave
brides, vowing they would not be released until militant prisoners were freed from
jail.
President Goodluck Jonathan has been criticized at home and abroad for his slow
response to the kidnapping and for the inability of Nigerian troops to quell the
violence by the militants, seen as the biggest security threat to Africa’s top economy
and leading energy producer.