Boko Haram: UK may sell more weapons to Nigeria

Nigeria could get more weapons from the United Kingdom to fight Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast.

Reuters reports that UK’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson revealed this on Thursday, August 31.

He said: “They have put out a request for more help with materiel – equipment of one kind and another. We are going to look at that.

We will look at that very seriously on counter-IED provision, on a request for more help with attack helicopters, for instance.

Let’s have a look at what we can do.” Reuters reports that British soldiers were already training Nigerian 28,000 troops. But American intelligence expert on Nigerian matters Matthew T. Page says the move was a waste of funds. He tweeted: