“President Muhammadu Buhari has unreservedly condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire,” the presidency said in a statement on Monday.

“In a telephone call to President Alassane Ouattara after the attack, President Buhari conveyed the sympathy of the Federal Government and people of Nigeria  to the people of Cote D’Ivoire as they mourn their compatriots and foreign visitors who lost their lives in the attack,” said the statement signed by Buhari’s spokesman Femi Adesina.

Mr. Adesina said the President assured his Ivorian counterpart of “Nigeria’s full solidarity and support as his country grapples with the consequences of the heinous attack and strives to overcome the new security challenges posed by the terrorist incursion”.

Remarking once again that terrorism now transcends all national boundaries, President Buhari restated his call for greater international cooperation against terrorists and their sponsors.

“They have attacked a hotel in Mali, leaving 21 people dead. They killed over 130 people in attacks on Paris and they murdered 28 persons  in Burkina Faso.

“Terrorism does not respect territorial boundaries again. That is why the world has to come together, present a common front and deal with these merchants of evil,” Buhari said.