Boko Haram attacks to end in three months

"Boko Haram should be eliminated
at the maximum of three months". With these
words, northern governors expressed their
expectation from the Federal Government and the
international community that the insurgency
spearheaded by the Boko Haram Islamist group
should end within three months.

The governors
spoke on a day the US First Lady, Michelle Obama,
said her family was "outraged and heartbroken"
over the more than 200 girls abducted by Boko
Haram in Chibok, Borno State on April 14.

Also, yesterday, a senior US official said Washington
was considering a Nigerian request for surveillance
aircraft to join the search for the abducted girls.

The UN Security Council expressed outrage over
the kidnapping, saying it would consider
"appropriate measures" against Boko Haram. The
US is seeking to have UN sanctions imposed