Cameroon–Nigeria relations troops from the two countries will cross into Nigeria and fight Boko Haram in collaboration with Nigerian forces." Cameroon–Nigeria relations This article details the foreign relations between Cameroon and Nigeria. For a few years, relations between Cameroon and Nigeria have intensified over issues relating to their 1,600-kilometer land boundary, extending from the Lake Chad to the Bakassi peninsula, and boundary into the Gulf of Guinea. The issues that are involved are rights over the oil-rich land and the fate of local populations. For example, as Lake Chad dried up due to desertification, local populations relying on the lake for their
A3 highway (Nigeria) A3 highway (Nigeria) The A3 highway is a highway in Nigeria. It runs generally north from Port Harcourt through Aba, Umuahia, Okigwe, Enugu, Ngwo, Makurdi, Lafia, Jos, Bauchi and Potiskum thence east via Damaturu, Maiduguri to the border with Cameroon at Gambaru. The continuation through Cameroon connects to N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. On May 9, 2014, it was reported that the bridge linking Gamboru to the rest of Nigeria, and also linking "the immigration checkpoints of both Cameroon and Nigeria," had been destroyed in an attack by Boko Haram. Hundreds of heavy duty trucks plying the Chad-Nigeria highway along