Nigeria Army arrest Boko Haram financier in Borno

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said on Tuesday that troops had arrested a financier of the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State.

Usman said in a statement that that the man, identified as Mohammed Maina, was arrested in Bama with N1m cash on him.

He said that the suspect was also a supplier of kola nuts and other stimulants to the insurgents.

The Army spokesman said that the suspect, a native of Shuari Village in Bama Local Government Area, might have been collecting monetary contributions from Boko Haram sympathisers along the Maiduguri-Dikwa-Kulli axis of the state.

Boko Haram Pledges Allegiance to ISIS!

Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have just released a video, with a person who spoke without identifying himself re-affirming their allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

He asserted that Boko Haram, also known as IS West Africa Province, was still under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, who hasn't appeared in a video since February.

Captain Oni Died Galantly Defending Maiduguri in North East Nigeria

This is the picture of Captain Oni who died on Sunday while defending gallantly the city Of Maduguiri from falling into the hands of Boko Hara.

The idiots were repelled, unfortunately Captain Oni did not make it.He paid the supreme price so that me and you can sleep and snore.

Nigerian Army are Seriously Stinging Boko Haram [PICS]

Boko Haram terrorists members second attempt to take the major northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri this week has again been defeated by Nigerian troops, today, Sunday, leaving hundreds of terrorists dead, reports Associated Press.

The terror-sect fighters launched a fresh attempt to take over the Borno state capital at roughly 3:00am, today Sunday (local time) with loud explosions and gunfire, as the insurgents tried to enter the city from the south.

See Boko Haram Child Soldiers!!!

This Nigerian crises is finally starting to look like the Liberian conflict o. Imagine child soldiers facing our military in the north?

May God in His infinite mercies help us!

Who is Abubakar Shekau?

Abubakar Shekau, also known by the alias Darul Tawheed  is the Islamist leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. He served as deputy leader to the group's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, until Yusuf was killed in 2009. Nigerian authorities believed that Shekau was killed in 2009 during clashes between security forces and Boko Haram until July 2010 when he appeared in a video claiming leadership of the group. He has subsequently been reported killed with regularity, and is thought to use body doubles.

Shekau is an ethnic Kanuri but also speaks Hausa, Arabic, and English. Shekau claims to be an intellectual and theologian who studied Islam "under a traditional cleric".

TERRORISM CAN NOT BE STOPPED IF THE WORLD KEEP ISOLATING NIGERIA AND AFRICA

There is a war raging on the world, a war that is threatening to bring down civilization and throw humanity back into the stone age. This is a war that is threatening to invade our comfort zones and suck out our existence. Some of us might think we are safe now, that we are secured in the midst of our tight security web and that no harm can get to us. We feel so secure to the extent that we have little concern about how other people are being engulfed in the chaos and fury of this war.

So I have this to say:
* If America was so secured how did the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center hit them?
* How did the Boston bombers managed to manufacture home made bombs right under the nose of  their security web?
* How did radicalization became so bold in the United Kingdom that extremists became so bold to hack down an army officer in broad day light?

150 Died in Baga Attacks, Not 2,000 - Military

You will recall that the Nigerian offline and online media were awash of a certain news springing out of Baga a town in the northern part of Nigeria currently under Boko Haram attack that over 2,000 civilians were massacred by the deadly extremist cell.

Upon the release of the news, the whole country went haywire screaming and shouting at the top of their lungs, Nigerian twitter armies were also not left out of the frenzy as they took to twitter to express their minds on the news and same goes for the Nigerian local news media. Long story short, everyone wanted to feed on the carcass of the news but believe me, yours faithfully didn't even bulge at the news because I know my country and their media style - there's always a second version!

So the Nigerian Defence Authorities through the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade has finally released the second version of last week's new this morning. The Major General claimed that only 150 people lost their lives in the insurgents' attack on Baga contrary to previous news that the civilian casualties were 2,000.

He went further to say how can a town that has been largely deserted have up to 2,000 residents in it. According to him, Baga has been under attack for some months and residents already fled the town and a majority of the 150 that died in the latest attack on the town last week were arms bearing insurgents.

Furthermore he said the news media and internet news scavengers like yours faithfully should stop exaggerating numbers and report the news exactly as it is.

Should we believe the Major General version of the news or not? After all, only a few of us knows the way to Baga town.

EXTREMISTS ARE HIJACKING ISLAM

We have been told many times that Islam is a religion of Peace and Mercy. We have seen mosques and we know how purity, humility and sense of devotion to Allah goes into the Muslim's prayer session.

Islam is the second most populous religion in the world and have hundreds of millions of followers worldwide. A Muslim's life is characterized generally by humility, patience, attention to worship hours and evident faith in the Islamic religion.

But it is evident that some minority blood thirsty and murderous mad men in Islam called Extremists and Fanatics are hiding under the cover of Islam by carrying out mass murders and heinous crimes against humanity under the pretext of serving the divine will of Allah through Jihad.

It Won’t Come As A Surprise If Boko Haram Endorses Buhari – Fani-Kayode

The Director, Media and Publicity of the Peoples’ Democratic Party presidential campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has called for probe into the relationship between the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and violent groups.

The former aviation minister made the call in a statement in Abuja on Friday following Buhari’s alleged endorsement by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND).

Fani said Buhari’s endorsement by MEND, a discredited militia group, should give Nigerians and the international community great concern, Punch reports.

ISLAM: Religion or Terrorist Organisation

This is a very sensitive issue to talk about but I will nonetheless say it the way I have it on my heart. I and a senior colleague was following up on the Charlie Hebdo massacre which happened in Paris two days ago and suddenly my colleague screamed out aloud saying "what shall we do about this ISLAM!!!!??"

I was taken aback by the scream and pondered for a while on what he meant by those words. Then it occurred to me that the man I hear screaming at moment was not my colleague that I normally know but a man full of depression, fear, fury and anguish at the unbridled manner with which extremists go about cutting off innocent souls all in the name of JIHAD, Defense of the Prophet and a Sacred Heavenly Duty to Allah