By Ben Agande

Abuja—The Federal Government has purchased additional vehicles to patrol the porous Nigeria-Niger and Camerounian borders in order to check the activities of terrorists in the area.

This is coming on the heels  of the conclusion of work on the  demarcation of Nigeria-Niger Republic border by the National Boundary Commission, NBC.

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, Nurudeen Mohammed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a meeting of the NBC chaired by the vice president at the Aguda House in the Presidential Villa.

According to the minister, the latest measure follows similar successful demarcation of Nigeria-Cameroon border, over which security concerns had also been raised in the past.

He said Nigeria and her neighbours will continue to cooperate in order to minimise security challenges facing them and to minimise the activities of transborder hoodlums.

He said Nigeria and  Cameroon will continue to share intelligence to further check possible terrorist activities and other breaches.

Also speaking, the director general of  the National Boundary Commission, Dr Ahmad Mohammed said the NBC was working to get Nigeria’s intercontinental shelf to be extended by 150 nautical miles so as to increase the country’s area of influence in the Gulf of Guinea.

He said the meeting also deliberated on resolving outstanding internal boundary conflicts in the country, including  the border dispute between Kogi and Anambra states which escalated when a private firm set up a refinery in the Anambra side of the border, having discovered crude oil in commercial quantity within the region.