North-South Cooperation:

USA refuses to sell strategic weapons to Nigeria against Boko Haram
-Buhari accuses USA of aiding and abetting Boko Haram
-Laments impotence of Nigerian Army vis-a-vis the terrorist insurgents 
Bomb blasts blamed on Boko Haram killed 29 people in Nigeria and 14 in Cameroon, officials said Thursday after Nigeria's president warned that the U.S’s refusal to sell his country strategic weapons is "aiding and abetting" the Islamic extremist group.
    Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency called Thursday for urgent blood donations to treat 105 wounded people, according to spokesman Sani Datti.
    NEMA has confirmed that no fewer than 29 persons were killed in Wednesday’s attacks at two motor parks in Gombe.
    He said at least 29 bodies have been recovered at two bustling bus stations in north eastern Gombe town — the latest targets in a campaign that has spilled across Nigeria's borders.
    In neighboring Cameroon, two suicide bombers Wednesday killed at least 14 people at a marketplace in the city of Maroua, officials said. The toll is likely to rise among the 50 injured, they said.
    Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari returned home Thursday to the capital, Abuja, from a four-day visit to the United States where he was warmly received by President Barack     Obama but failed to get all he wanted.
Buhari told policy makers Wednesday at the U.S. Institute for Peace that Nigeria's armed forces are "largely impotent" because they do not possess the appropriate weapons to fight the Boko Haram Islamic militants.
    He urged the Obama and Congress to be more flexible about the Leahy Law that prohibits weapon sales to countries whose military are accused of gross human rights violations.

Amnesty International charges Nigeria's military is responsible for the deaths of 8,000 detainees — twice as many as Boko Haram's victims in the first four years of its 6-year-old insurgency.
    "The application of the Leahy Law ... has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorist group in the prosecution of its extremist ideology and hate, the indiscriminate killings and maiming of civilians," Buhari said.
    Even though the US refused supplying weapons to Nigeria, it however agreed to help the Buhari administration recover about 150 billion US Dollars stolen from Nigeria and stashed abroad.
    On its part, the World Bank has agreed to loan Nigeria over 2.1 billion Dollars to help her resettle displaced persons and rebuild areas of north-eastern Nigeria that have been devastated by Boko Haram insurgents.
    President Obama appreciated the fact that Buhari had come with a clear agenda to tackle the problems of corruption and insecurity occasioned by the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.