President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Cameroon Wednesday to hold talks with his Cameroonian counterpart,

Paul Biya and senior Cameroonian government officials on how to further contain the insurgence ravaging parts of both nations.

The talks are expected to centre on regional efforts to be embarked on or strengthened to battle the insurgents who have killed many citizens of the two countries in the last four years.

The leaders would equally appraise the full activation and deployment of the Multinational Joint Task Force, MJTF, currently prepping to increase military pressure on the Boko Haram.

The task force was established under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said that Buhari would be accompanied on the two-day trip by six state governors, the permanent Secretary of the federal ministry of Defence and the director-general of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.

Prominent amongst the issues to be deliberated upon at the parley between the two leaders are new measures to curb terrorism, violent extremism and other cross-border crimes ravaging both nations.

Buhari is also expected to hold informal talks with Nigerians living in Cameroon during the visit.

After his return on Thursday, Buhari is also expected visit Benin Republic on Saturday for similar talks with President Boni Yayi.

Adesina noted that the visits are part of efforts by the administration to reenergize regional efforts targeting the eventual eradication of violent extremism in the West African region.

Nigerian troops, in recent weeks, have recorded successes against the Boko Haram insurgents, whose operations have now been reduced to sporadic attacks on isolated villages and suicide onslaughts on public places.

Buhari has insisted since his inauguration that it would require regional efforts to rout the insurgents.