Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a new minister of defense in a strategic move to battle extremists who have wreaked havoc in the country’s Muslim north, various sources reported Wednesday. The president named retired Lieutenant General Aliyu Gusau, who comes from northern Nigeria, as his new defense minister for the job to push
Nigerian Leader Appoints New Defense Chief To Combat Northern Islamic Militants
The shuffle is meant to take the Nigerian army’s fight to Boko Haram, an Islamic militant movement responsible for the deaths of more than 400 people alone in brazen attacks over the last five weeks in the country’s north.