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A Universtity Lecturer Paraded For Supporting Boko Haram

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 21 November 2013 0 komentar

A university lecturer, Dr Mohammed Nazeef Yunus, was on Wednesday paraded along four others by the Department of State Security Service (DSS), over their alleged involvement in Boko Haram-related activities including recruitment, training, arms running and acts of terrorism, among others.


Other suspects paraded by the Service are Umar Musa who was the Head of Operations/Instructor, Mustapha Yusuf a.k.a Habib said to
be the armourer/chief courier; Ismaila Abdulazeez, a foot soldier and Ibrahim Isah, otherwise known as One in Town, also said to be a foot soldier.

According to the spokesperson for
the service, Ms Marilyn Ogar, Dr Nazeef was until his arrest, an Assistant Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Kogi State University, Ayingba and also was the spiritual leader and co-ordinator for the Boko Haram Sect in Kogi State.


Ms Ogar disclosed that all the suspects were picked up following a tip off that they had concluded plans to attack Kogi State after they had received terrorist and weapon handling training from the sect both in Kano and Maiduguri camps respectively.

According to her, “upon arrest, Dr Nazeef claimed that he held several preaching sessions every last Saturday and Sunday of the month at Ethosho Secondary School, Ojolo, Dekina LGA, where he has about 80 adherents and another session every Friday at the Kogi State University Mosque, Ayingba where he has about 120 adherents.”




Dr Nazeef, said to be a staunch member of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), until his arrest, according to SSS since the beginning of ASUU’s strike, normally came from Jos where his family is settled to Kogi State to his followers and lectured on “the virtues of Jihad and the sanctity of the Sharia system as an alternative form of governance and its entrenchment in Kogi and beyond.”

However, Dr Nazeef denied the allegations saying that he was being framed up by the unnamed members of the sect whose activities had preached against at his series of teaching.

But all the four other suspects paraded with him insisted that he lied and that he was their spiritual leader and co-ordinator who had on several occasions introduced them to training in the sect’s cells located in Kano and Maiduguri.

The duo of Mustapha Yusuf and Ismaila Abdulazeez were picked at a popular mosque in Zuba, a suburb of Abuja on their way to Maiduguri for training having been persuaded by the lecturer that they should forget western education and that there were more rewards in Jihad than western education.

Both Mustapha and Ismaila claimed that they came across the lecturer in the course of their seeking for assistance for admission into the Kogi State University and he promised to assist them while another suspect, Umar Musa, who was the head of operations of the group claimed that he knew the lecturer as far back as 1996 when he was the chairman of a Quranic recitation competition in the state after which he introduced him to the sect recently.

Umar Musa confessed that he was enlisted into the sect by accident when he lost his teaching job with the Kogi State Teaching Service Commission during the last screening exercise and that he was being paid N50,000 monthly salary by the sect

The service urged parents who normally send their children and wards to Quranic schools to be wary of the Islamic Centres they send them to as investigations had revealed that some of the Islamic scholars used such centres as camouflage to deceive the public.

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French Hostage Held by Boko Haram/Ansaru Escapes.

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 17 November 2013 0 komentar
Reuters) -

 A French engineer who had been held hostage by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria for almost a year has escaped his jailers, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.



"This man showed exceptional courage. At the risk of his life, he took advantage of an opportunity and then, in conditions worthy of an adventure novel, he managed to free himself," Hollande told reporters in Israel, where he is on a state visit.
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Hollande gave no details about the escape, but a Nigerian police official told Reuters Francis Collomp, who is over 60, had slipped out of his cell and managed to find a motorcycle taxi which took him to a police station.

Collomp was seized when about 30 gunmen stormed his compound on December 19 in the northern Nigerian town of Rimi, close to the Niger border where al Qaeda's North African wing, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), operates. Hollande said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who arrived in Israel with Hollande, was flying to Nigeria to receive him.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman told Reuters Collomp was due to arrive in the military airbase of Villacoublay near Paris Monday morning around 6 am. Nigerian Police commissioner Olufemi Adenaike told Reuters Collomp had been moved to the town of Zaria, in northern Nigeria, in the past three months and had fled from there.
"He escaped yesterday in Zaria and boarded a commercial motorcycle taxi to the nearest police station," Adenaike said.
"We handed him over to the French embassy this morning," he added. French television showed images of a tired-looking Collomp getting into a French embassy vehicle in Nigeria. A diplomatic source told Reuters Collomp was weak and had lost a lot of weight but was not injured. "BRAVO, MY HUSBAND."
Collomp's wife Anne-Marie told French radio Hollande had called her to inform her husband was free.
"I have heard that he has escaped, I say bravo my husband, bravo," she said.
In September, Collomp - an engineer at French renewable energy firm Vergnet - asked for help in a three-minute video posted on a jihadi website. Ansaru, the militant group that kidnapped him, said soon after his abduction that he had been taken in retaliation for France's military action against jihadi insurgents in nearby Mali and its ban on wearing the full-face veil.
Britain has put Ansaru on its official "terrorist group" list, saying it is aligned with al Qaeda and was behind the kidnapping of a British national and a Italian who were killed last year during a failed rescue attempt.
The group is thought to have loose ties to the better-known Islamist militant sect Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in a four-year-long insurgency focused mostly on Nigerian security forces, religious targets and politicians.
Boko Haram and splinter groups like Ansaru pose the biggest security threat in Africa's second-biggest economy and top oil exporter, a major supplier to the Europe, Brazil and India. Collomp's release comes just weeks after four French hostages kidnapped in Niger by AQIM, were released on October 29 after three years in captivity.  Seven other French nationals are being held hostage in Syria, Mali and Nigeria, including French priest Georges Vandenbeusch, who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon last week and is believed to be held in Nigeria.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Emmanuel Jarry in Paris, Elizabeth Pineau in Jerusalem, Tim Cocks in Lagos and Isaac Abrak in Kaduna; writing by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Nigeria Beef up Security, Creates New Specialized Squad To Combat Boko Haram (Pix)

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 15 November 2013 0 komentar
In Nigeria security guards outfit are far more respected than Nigeria police, When our police will discover ways to dress up and look gently before her citizenry?
Have a look at guys with their uniform outfit, even Mr President JONATHAN salute them and invited them to become listed on his entourage.
 They are tall, fit,clean, and ready to go ! !.some of them will soon find them self in ASO VILLAS/CORRIDOR OF POWERS for security purpose.
    GUYS HOW DO YOU SEE THEM


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Pix Post: Nigeria Beef up Security, Creates New Specialized Squad To Combat Boko Haram

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 12 November 2013 0 komentar
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Can Nigeria fight the war on terror alone ? ( Do we Need External Help and what are the pros and cons ?)

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 10 November 2013 0 komentar
SIX months after the Federal Government declared a state of emergency in three North-Eastern states of the federation in order to end the Boko Haram terror campaign, Nigerians have yet to heave a sigh of relief from the activities of the terrorists. Although there was a lull in terror attacks at the initial stage of the military operation against the insurgents, recent attacks by the religious extremists have led to significant loss of lives and property.
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The insurgents seem to have become bolder, carrying out daring attacks against security agents and military formations, especially in Borno and Yobe states. With President Goodluck Jonathan’s extension of the state of emergency for another six months, efforts must be stepped up to contain the insurgents to sustain the initial success recorded.
The development calls for an urgent review of strategy. Nigeria can no longer afford the arrogance of fighting terrorism all alone while the international community wallows in the ignorance of linking the Boko Haram terrorist campaign to mass poverty or the elite’s struggle for control of oil wealth.  Boko Haram has become a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share a common poisonous ideology.

There is increasing evidence that international jihadists are actively participating in Boko Haram’s deadly attacks. According to the military, many of the insurgents were recruited from neighbouring countries such as Niger Republic, Chad, Cameroon, and even Mali, which are said to have supplied about 2,000 recruits to the Boko Haram cause.

As they did in Mali when Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ruled a big swathe of northern Mali, dividing the country into two, the overall objective of Boko Haram’s terror campaign is to turn part of Northern Nigeria to a haven for Islamist terrorists. President Goodluck Jonathan therefore got it right when he declared in Israel that
 “combating the menace of terrorism is a challenge that we must address in partnership with all peace-loving countries and peoples of the world.”

There is no doubt that Africa is the new theatre in the global war against terrorism. For a long time, the United States had considered the Horn of Africa – Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan – the major source of global terrorism in Africa. Not anymore. A better part of African continent, with Nigeria as the epicentre, has now been seized by Islamists.

A Global Terrorism Database released by a US organisation, the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, lists Boko Haram among the top five group perpetrators of terrorism in the world after the Maoists (India); the Taliban (Afghanistan); and al-Shabaab (Somalia). Sudan has been a training hub and safe haven for members of several of the more violent international terrorist and radical Islamist groups.
Since the September 21 Kenya Westgate mall attack that killed about 70 people, world leaders have been calling for a coordinated response to terrorist attacks in Africa. It is established that Islamists are able to take advantage of porous borders, weak central governments, under-trained armed forces, and flourishing drug trades. The two US raids in Libya and Somalia last month that resulted in the capture of a terrorist on the most-wanted list highlight al-Qaeda’s growing terror network on the continent.

Following the operations, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, claimed that terrorists “can run but they can’t hide.” All this serves as a stark reminder that the threat of terrorism anywhere in the world affects everyone and should not be left for one government alone to handle.

This is the stark reality Nigeria must face. The Nigerian authorities have to forge a good network with other countries to fight a common enemy.  The Boko Haram-created instability is telling on the people and the economy. Thousands of people in the North-East region have fled their homes, taking refuge in neighbouring countries. The insurgency is not only harming the local economy of the North-East, but that of the entire country.

Many governments have since issued travel alerts to warn their nationals against visiting Nigeria. “The issue of security scares some people and impacts negatively on our results,” says Goodie Ibru, President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

A major problem that has to be dealt with is that of the porous border between Nigeria and Niger Republic. For example, an urgent action has to be taken on how to curtail illegal movement of massive and sophisticated arms on this 1,500 kilometre-long border between the two neighbours. Furthermore, Nigeria has to step up its intelligence gathering and sharing with these countries, so as to understand the modus operandi of the foreign recruits, stopping them at their countries of origin before they enter Nigeria.
We urgently need an internationally-backed anti-terror strategy. As the President said, there is no doubt that Israel has had decades of experience in combating terrorism and Nigeria can benefit tremendously from its experience.  But Jonathan should go beyond rhetoric by securing concrete assistance from other countries with wealth of experience in fighting terrorism. Modern equipment to fight the scourge and training of security officials should be part of our focus. The top hierarchy of Boko Haram must be decimated.

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