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Sep

16

2022

ISWAP Kills 8 Boko Haram in Borno rival clash

NewsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, ISWAP, Metro, Security

A fierce battle broke out between Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and has led to the death of eight fighters, including a middle rank Commander simply identified as “Kundu”. It was gathered that the incident, which took place on Thursday September 15, between Dikwa and Bama Local Government Areas, also left many fighters from both the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad and ISWAP injured. An Intelligence officer told Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad that Kundu and his team were on a robbery mission when the ISWAP intercepted them on six…

Sep

15

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Nigerian Army, EFCC agree to fight terrorism financing

Metro, News, PoliticsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Security

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Army have agreed to tackle terrorism financing. EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, expressed the readiness of the body to partner with the Army on intelligence sharing and capacity building. Bawa made the pledge while addressing officers of the Nigerian Army School of Artillery in Kachia, Kaduna State. The anti-graft stressed that modern warfare has gone beyond kinetics and the exchange of gunfire. He said the military and other security agencies must “choke” the source of funding of terrorists and identify their sponsors. Bawa, who spoke through the Kaduna Zonal Commander Harry…

Sep

15

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Group tells DSS to arrest Sheikh Gumi for alleged romance with bandits, terrorists

Metro, PoliticsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Politics, Security, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

For alleged romance with bandits/terrorists, a civil society organisation, under the auspices of Coalition for Peace In Nigeria (COPIN), has advised the Department of State Services (DSS), to without hesitation, arrest a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi. COPIN opined that owing to Gumi’s persistent call on the federal government to grant the terror elements amnesty, he should ordinarily be a person of interest. Pharmacist Emeka Akwuobi and Hajiya Fatih Yakub, the National Coordinator and the Secretary of the group, respectively, in a joint statement issued on Wednesday, said that Sheikh Gumi had a lot of explanations to offer…

Sep

15

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

ISWAP bury 26 terrorists killed in military bombardments in Borno

NewsBandits, Boko Haram, ISWAP, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Security

After sustained aerial bombardments and elimination of terrorists, surviving fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have buried 26 members in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria. The terrorists were eliminated on Sept 9, in a coordinated air strike by the Nigerian military on two camps of the ISWAP in Sigir and Yarwa Kuwa on the fringes of Lake Chad. An intelligence officer told Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad that scores of the terrorists were killed in the airstrikes. The source noted that combat aircraft attacked a gathering…

Sep

14

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Court gives DSS go-ahead to detain Tukur Mamu, bandits negotiator

NewsBandits, Boko Haram, Metro, Nigeria, Politics, Security

A Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted a prayer by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain the former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days. NAN reports that Justice Nkeonye Maha ruled on the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji. The security outfit, in the motion, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 dated and filed Sept. 12, had urged the court to grant its reliefs to enable it to conclude its investigation on Mamu, who had been leading the negotiation with the terrorists for the release of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers kidnaped in March. On Sept. 6,…