President Jonathan has formally sworn in the new heads of the armed forces. At the ceremony, new Chief of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said he would end the Boko Haram insurgency before Nigerian general elections in 2015. Badeh has also issued a press statement claiming that his promise to end the insurgency by April 2014 was misinterpreted. The Air Force says it has bombed Boko Haram positions near Damboa in Borno state; an Air Force spokesman said that those militants not killed fled across the border to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
