vehicles across northwest Nigeria since last December. Mallam Suleiman Keke, a community leader in the

" Operation Safe Corridor has recorded tremendous successes," its head, Brigadier General Mohammed Maina, said early last month in written responses to AFP's questions.... " Over 800 repentant ex-combatants have been successfully deradicalised, rehabilitated and reintegrated." Many more could soon be eligible.... All four of their names have also been changed. But, Abubakar said, when the Islamist extremists arrived, everything changed....