The Nigerian military has arrested 28 informants leaking operational secrets to the Boko Haram terrorists.
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The United States has named Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, the new leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has called on the Nigerian Army to take the ongoing war against insurgency in the North East to the insurgents’ enclaves to clear the remnants of the terrorists in the region.
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, says synergy among security services is very crucial to ensuring success in the fight against terrorism and other criminal elements in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has recommended a multilateral approach to combat terrorism in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, to prevent serious threats to security and international peace.
Let me start by doing a quick comparison between conventional warfare and unconventional warfare. While conventional warfare is the use of conventional, traditional means to wage war, unconventional warfare on the other hand, uses unconventional weapons, targets the civilian population as well as the armed forces and specializes in unconventional tactics. The United States Department of Defense defines unconventional warfare as activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, says Nigeria must deploy intelligence to be able to combat terrorism, banditry and kidnapping.
Saudi Arabia has executed 37 people who were convicted in terrorism-related cases, the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Dead Sea, Jordan urged world leaders to work towards narrowing gaps in social and economic opportunities for citizens as panacea to rising conflicts across the globe, attributing the Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria to lack of inclusion.
The Defence Headquarters says ongoing military operations to combat terrorism, banditry and economic sabotage has recorded some successes in the last one week.
India is set to cooperate with Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, says Abhay Thakur, India’s High Commissioner to Nigeria.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Thursday acknowledged the power of the media, saying it has the ability to either stabilise or distabilise situation in any given security environment.
According to the citizen, the Federal Housing Authority estate Lugbe and Lugbe axis is fast becoming a terrorist zone and they have raped and killed over 30 persons from one year till now.
In its report: “Changing Patterns in Terrorism and the Threat to Business,” Control Risks, the specialist global risk consultancy, finds that the number of incidents rose from 317 in 2013 to 1,549 for the period April 2017 to April 2018.
Olujimi told News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that with 19 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, Nigeria had demonstrated that it would remain undivided and homogenous in spite of challenges
Buhari said this on Saturday at the meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the theme: “Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Combat the Transnational Threat to Terrorism.”
Terrorism’s multiplication into subsets or splinter rebellious or extremists groups has drenched most parts of the world in its consuming fire. Before now, emphasis on combating terrorism was centered on field combats alone
Lawmakers across the political divide supported the extension except those from Jean-Luc Melenchon’s hard-left France Unbowed party and the Communist party, which both deemed the emergency rule dangerous for civil liberties.
This was contained in a Readout of Trump’s call with Buhari released by the White House through its spokesperson on February 15
The prosecutors described it as the first assault ordered by Islamic State in the country