“And I assure you that we will defeat Boko Haram by the end of this year.” This was the
pledge made by Nigerian President Muhammdu Buhari to his Beninese counterpart, Boni Yayi,
during a gala dinner commemorating Benin’s independence during the summer of 2015.
It was a promise that the Nigerian head of state would also reiterate to fellow Nigerians, who
eagerly waited for him to make good on his promise and act with the decisiveness that Buhari
had accused his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, of lacking. Yet as 2015 drew to a close, the
specter of Boko Haram loomed as large as ever over Africa’s most populous state.
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