U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia next week to discuss regional issues, the State Department announced Thursday.

Kerry will first go to Nigeria and meet with President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss the threat of terror group Boko Haram, spokesman John Kirby said.

Boko Haram, the group responsible for the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014, has killed at least 20,000 people in its 7-year uprising against the Nigerian government. It surpassed Islamic State in 2014 to become the world's deadliest terrorist group, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Kerry and Buhari also will discuss Nigeria's economy and human rights issues.

Secretary Kerry then will travel on to Saudi Arabia where he will meet with Saudi and other Gulf state leaders to discuss the ongoing conflict in Yemen, Kirby said.

VOA's Steve Herman contributed to this report.

yanshDoctor:
USA and UK already knows that buhari is no longer popular back home. why haven't they talk about avengers? they know they won't want to trend on that line. that is where Nigeria is divided unlike boko haram. USA and UK have learnt their lessons on country national issues. they won't want to take side in either otherwise they create another enemy to the already existing enemies.

12Monkeys:


[size=18pt]Buhari: The Perfect Manchurian Kandidate[/size]
If you let a bull into a china shop you are expecting the bull to wreck all the china.

This is why the West chose Buhari as their anointed candidate not to rule Nigeria but to oversee Nigeria's dissolution.

The perfect Manchurian Kandidate is one who you know will do what you expect from him not because of the brainwashing but the fact that you understand his personae and character enough to ensure that he will do what you expect of him. This is the simple summary of the character and divisive nature of Muhammadu Buhari. The West are no strangers to Buhari's sectionalism and bigotry and over the years since Buhari was kicked out of Dodan Barracks, Buhari has had time to become more radicalized in both his parochial sectionalism and bigotry to the point that he floated a regional northern party on his own - Congress for Progressive Change. So the excuse that the west may have made a mistake in supporting Buhari is totally out of the question as they knew very well before hand what a candidate like Muhamdu Buhari represented before throwing their weight behind him.

When Buhari made the quote; "I belong to nobody but belong to everybody" he was in effect telling us that he is nothing but a puppet at the hands of many a puppeteers.

Buhari's many puppeteers are;

1. Hardline Northern supremacists usually sharia advocates. These set of scammers are working in tandem with the Saudi Wahabbi group are just out to make a buck both from Saudi Arabia and to garner influence from within the Nigerian govt. This set of religious bigots where highly influential in redirecting Nigeria's foreign policy towards Saudi Arabia and pitching us against Israel and Iran. They also played a major role in the Zaria massacre of shiites and are the hawks advocating and pushing for war in the Niger Delta (in the guise of fighting Militants) and SE (in the guise of curbing Biafran secessionists).

2. Hardline Northern Military officers from the Abacha era. These set of retired and serving Military officers are using Military comradeship in swaying Buhari. They are out to make a buck like the sharia advocates above. They have no ideological input into Buhari's administration but are using their army links to back Buhari in whatever foolish decision he makes all because they want him to award juicy contracts and oil lifting rights to them. They are the force behind the NDA.

3. Northern Sycophants . These set of political jobbers have been with Buhari since he decided back in 2003 to contest for the highest office. They are drawn mainly from the Abacha era and have been in the cold dark corridors of political limbo since Abacha's demise. These set of political jobbers dominate Buhari's inner cabinet and are by far the greatest puppeteers of the Buhari puppet as they have 24/7 access to him night and day.

4. Northern Business Oligarchs. Drawn from the Abacha and Yaradua era these set of northerners are selling the idea that before the north can surpass the south, the south must be slowed down. All Buhari's disastrous policies have been felt first and only in the south. The several companies folding up and mass sacking of staff is occurring mainly in the south, Why? Because there are no tangible private firms located in the north. These set of greedy oligarchs are using Buhari's distorted financial and economic policies to mop up cheapened shares from the stock market. The brain dead forex policy is just an avenue at round-tripping that has made many an ab0ki extremely rich overnight.

Considering the skewed ethnic and regional makeup of Buhari's inner cabinet you will all agree that most of those who surround Buhari are actually northerners pushing a northern agenda and they are achieving their goals because Buhari as president remains a willing tool at their hands because of his highly sectional approach and gross ignorance.

appini:
The wood they installed in Nigeria as a president is getting more confused than they thought.

Femich18:

Its better to keep quiet Xo that people will mistakenly take you to be a wise man

vintino:
Make he buy gala come

vintino:
Make he buy gala come

naijaking1:
Kerry coming to check on Buhari, the gift Obama gave to Nigeria!