The Nigeria Immigration Service said it barred no fewer than
4,916 Nigerians from travelling out of the country between
January and March, 2015.
The Nigerians were suspected to be on their way to join
international terrorist organisations, including the Islamic
State of Syria and Iraq and the Taliban, sources within the
NIS confided in our correspondent.
The NIS also said that 758 Nigerians were refused entry
abroad while 1, 368 others were deported within the period.
Also, it said 12,152 foreigners were refused entry into
Nigeria because they had no genuine reasons for visiting the
country.
For the whole of 2014, the NIS prevented 18,555 Nigerians
from leaving the country, according to passenger movement
returns obtained from the service.
Two Nigerian youths suspected to be on their way to Iraq to
join the ISIS were arrested by the Indian security service last
week after scaling a barbed wire fence near the
international border.
The two youths from Kano State, identified as Imran Kabeer
and Sani Jamiliu, were being detained by the Punjab Police
in India.
The NIS Public Relations Officer, Emeka Obua, in an
interview on Monday said the organisation had intensified
profiling of travellers as part of measures to check people
going abroad to do things that are inimical to themselves
and the image of the country.
When asked why the NIS was not able to stop the two
Nigerian youths arrested in India, Obua explained that in
spite of the efforts of the service, many individuals still
managed to escape.
He said, “Before the advent of ISIS, the NIS had been
battling with illegal migration, organised or otherwise. The
push and pull factors have always been there and the NIS
has fashioned a robust profiling mechanism that identifies
those whose intent for going abroad is either inimical to
themselves or the image of the country.
“The NIS has always tried to stop young Nigerians travelling
for doubtful reasons. It’s easy to know when you see their
young age; many of them are sponsored but many escape
the immigration dragnet and our expansive and extensive
borders are not helping matters and the NIS didn’t have
enough personnel to man all the borders.”
Obua clarified that many young people were being recruited
by the ISIS through the internet and social media, stressing
that terrorism had become a global challenge for security
agencies.
When asked to explain the nature of the profiling been
carried out on intending travellers, the NIS spokesman said
that it involved thorough interrogation of the subject on his
age, travelling plans, means of income, reasons for
travelling and his sponsors.
He said, “We look at the age bracket of the intending
travellers and the persons they are travelling with, put them
by the side and profiled them thoroughly. What are their
intentions for going abroad? Where are they going? Who are
they going to meet? How much do they have on them? Are
they staying in a hotel?
“In the course of this profiling, you would find out the truth.”
When contacted on the fate of the two Nigerians in detention
in India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman, Ogbole
Ahmedu-Ode, said he was in a meeting and asked to be
given some time. He later refused to pick subsequent calls
to his phone by our correspondent.
Meanwhile, the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim
Shettima, on Monday described the Nigerian violent Islamic
sect, Boko Haram, as an offspring of the pretentious nature
of many Nigerians to issues of religion and godliness.
Shettima, whose Borno serves as the operating
headquarters of the insurgents, lamented that many
Nigerians were “God in mouth but devil in heart,” which
explains why the nation has been bedevilled by the Boko
Haram crisis.
He said the philosophy of Boko Haram was strange to the
Islamic religion.
Addressing the leader of Borno State delegation to the 2015
holy pilgrimage in Jerusalem at the Government House in
Maiduguri, Shettima said if Nigerians had practised their
religions according to their dictates, the nation would not be
witnessing the ongoing Boko Haram crisis.
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[size=5pt]ST. LOUIS — A day of remembrance for Michael Brown quickly turned violent late Sunday when police shot a man they said had opened fire on them in Ferguson, Mo., close to where demonstrators gathered.The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr. of St. Louis, remains in critical condition, according to St. Louis County police. On Monday afternoon, prosecutors issued 10 charges against Harris — including four counts of first-degree assault on a police officer. Tyrone Harris Sr., the alleged shooter’s father, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his son and Brown, who was fatally shot by former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, “were real close.”Three hours after the police-involved shooting, two more teens were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting as they walked near a memorial honoring Brown.
The unrest prompted officials to place St. Louis County in an immediate state of emergency. The order puts St. Louis County police Chief John Belmar in command over all police emergency management in Ferguson and surrounding areas. “Chief Belmar shall exercise all powers and duties necessary to preserve order, prevent crimes, and protect the life and property of our citizens,” [/size]


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ST. LOUIS — A day of remembrance for Michael Brown quickly turned violent late Sunday when police shot a man they said had opened fire on them in Ferguson, Mo., close to where demonstrators gathered.

The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr. of St. Louis, remains in critical condition, according to St. Louis County police. On Monday afternoon, prosecutors issued 10 charges against Harris — including four counts of first-degree assault on a police officer.

Tyrone Harris Sr., the alleged shooter’s father, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his son and Brown, who was fatally shot by former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, “were real close.”

Three hours after the police-involved shooting, two more teens were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting as they walked near a memorial honoring Brown.

The unrest prompted officials to place St. Louis County in an immediate state of emergency. The order puts St. Louis County police Chief John Belmar in command over all police emergency management in Ferguson and surrounding areas.

“Chief Belmar shall exercise all powers and duties necessary to preserve order, prevent crimes, and protect the life and property of our citizens,” County Executive Steve Stenger wrote.

A beleaguered-looking Belmar learned of the drive-by shooting moments before briefing reporters on why his officers shot Harris.[/size]