LEADERS of IS are sneaking battle-hardened jihadis from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists there for possible attacks in Britain.

Fanatics from the West African state are also being sent to the Middle East for training in a chilling “exchange programme”.

Insiders fear strong links between Nigeria and the UK will make it easier for IS to send its killers here to bring more death and destruction.

Now more than 150 British troops are conducting counter-terror training with Nigerian forces in an attempt to stem the bloody tide — and stop IS taking hold in the region.

At one training mission in the northern city of Kaduna, a senior Nigerian Air Force commander revealed how his country’s jihadi groups were learning from IS after swearing allegiance to its black flag.

Group Captain Isaac Subi, 46, who has been fighting terrorism across Africa since 1991, said: “They come and train their fighters here and some of our insurgents too are granted access to their training in Yemen and Syria, acquiring those skills and they come back and teach others.

Their poisonous influence has already ended in horror attacks on British streets.

Fusilier Lee Rigby was stabbed to death in 2013 in London by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, both of Nigerian descent.

It is feared IS will exploit regular flights between Lagos and London to export more evil to the UK.

Group Captain Subi said the lack of secure borders across Africa also makes it easy to spread the bloodshed.

He added: “There are hundreds of fighters. It’s a virus that spreads across our borders. Their action leaves trails of blood and tears and sorrow.”

Over the past four years, more than 20,000 people have been killed in Nigeria, mainly in the north east where a population of 900,000 is now dominated by up to 3,000 terrorists.

Another two million have fled the bloodshed. Captured men are made to fight for the fanatics and seized women are forced into marriages.


But one terror tactic unique to Nigeria is the barbaric use of children as young as five to carry out suicide bomb attacks.

Brigadier Charles Calder, Britain’s defence adviser in Nigerian capital Abuja, said of the IS threat there: “In time, unchecked it could present a threat to both UK interests and conceivably the UK mainland.”

Brig Calder said sending small, hand-picked teams out to military training hubs across the country was the best way to prevent Nigeria collapsing.

Brits have so far trained 35,000 military personnel there and commanders say these are now performing better on the frontline.


The 2014 abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram sparked an upsurge in UK military involvement there.

In 2016, a faction split from Boko Haram, swore allegiance to IS and rebranded itself Islamic State in West Africa.

LEADERS of the terrorist group, Islamic State, are sneaking battle-hardened jihadists from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists for possible attacks in Europe, a United Kingdom newspaper, The Sun, reported on Monday.

Fanatics including Boko Haram insurgents were also being sent to the Middle East for training in a chilling “exchange programme,” the newspaper added.

The newspaper said there were fears that strong links between Nigeria and the UK would make it easier for ISIS to send its killers to France and Britain to orchestrate terror attacks, death and destruction.

It noted that more than 150 British troops were conducting counter-terror training with Nigerian forces in an attempt to stem the bloody tide — and stop IS from taking hold of the West African region.

At one training mission in the northern city of Kaduna, a senior Nigerian Air Force commander revealed how local jihadist groups were learning from IS after swearing allegiance to its black flag.

Group Captain Isaac Subi, 46, who has been fighting terrorism across Africa since 1991, said, “They come and train their fighters here and some of our insurgents too are granted access to their training in Yemen and Syria, acquiring those skills and they come back and teach others. They have this exchange programme of fighters.”

The report stated that the poisonous influence of the fighters had already ended in horror attacks on British streets, citing the stabbing to death of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013 in London by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, both of Nigerian descent.

It is feared IS would exploit regular flights between Lagos and London to export more evil to the UK.

Subi further told the UK Sun that the lack of secure borders across Africa also made it easy to spread the bloodshed.

He added, “There are hundreds of fighters. It’s a virus that spreads across our borders. Their action leaves trails of blood and tears and sorrow.”

Over the past four years, more than 20,000 people have been killed in the North-East where the population is now dominated by up to 3,000 terrorists.

Another two million people have fled the bloodshed with those captured by Boko Haram made to fight for the insurgents while seized women are forced into marriages.

Britain’s defence adviser in Abuja, Brig. Charles Calder, said the IS posed a threat to British interests and the UK mainland.

“In time, unchecked it could present a threat to both UK interests and conceivably the UK mainland.”

Calder said sending small, hand-picked teams out to military training hubs across the country “was the best way to prevent Nigeria from collapsing,” adding that British troops had so far trained 35,000 military personnel.

He noted that Nigerian troops are now performing better on the frontline.

The Defence Headquarters’ spokesman, Brig. Gen. John Agim, could not be reached for comment on the IS threat on Monday as calls to his phone failed to connect.

But Agim had in an exclusive interview with one of our correspondents last Wednesday, admitted that the military was aware that some of the attackers in the country “were foreigners who sneaked in as a result of the porous borders.”

“We know that some of the attackers in the North-East are also not Nigerians. Some of the attackers were brought in because they thought they could make money.

“Those who are recruited sometimes do it for money. You must have seen the video where hoodlums in Niger and Chad were begging to be recruited into the Boko Haram group and to come to Nigeria. So the issue is that some people, who are looking for something to do, are willing instruments in the hands of whoever wants to recruit them.

“So the problem is that some idle people who are willing individuals are available for whoever wants to recruit them. And sadly enough, our borders are porous,” Agim said.

Asked what the Nigeria Immigration Service was doing to strengthen border security, its spokesman, Sunday James, said the agency had strengthened border security to ensure that “no foreign entity is allowed by whatever means into the country by land, air or waterways.”

He added in a statement that NIS operatives had been proactive “going by the several arrests in recent past around the country by the Special Border Patrol Corps operatives of the NIS trained and deployed to carry out reconnaissance patrol.”

James advised Nigerians to report suspicious individuals or groups to the Immigration Service or other security agencies for necessary action.

This article originally appeared in PUNCH

lordkush:
buhari brothers




like if think buhari will not act on this report

Oblang:


No govt have acted on security issue more than Buhari... U can believe whatever u want to believe..

lordkush:
if your family where among the slaughtered in benue. You wouldnt be talking rubbush

Oblang:


Who says where are where we should be in terms of security yet? What I'm saying is there is better response than b4. Is it those that was sharing money meant for arms for election purposes that meant well for the security of the country? Our airforce are doing better. Its a gradual process..

lordkush:
now they did share money



but benue now has idp camps all through the state. +the killings in taraba

1 billion dollars have been budgeted for security now. but the killing is still going on

what did buhari do with the 1 billion dollars ?

Oblang:


Did u hear abt the tucano bin paid for by the Nigerian govt to the US and several fighter jet delivery. I guess u borrowed them the money. Like I said its a gradual process...

lordkush:
Tucano to fight herdsmen. abi soldiers from libya. ?

Oblang:


No govt have acted on security issue more than Buhari... U can believe whatever u want to believe..