Guess who just discovered "Intel"?


Please note: this news was never anywhere on AFP.. even fake bomb explosion news are being reported on the SA media....



Pretoria - Nigeria faces a prolonged
battle to quash the bloody Boko Haram
insurgency despite a "hardline"
campaign that has witnessed rights
abuses by both the state and the
militants, according to a South African
intelligence assessment obtained by
AFP.
A National Defence Force defence
intelligence division briefing - delivered
to visiting Chinese Defence Minister
Chang Wanquan on Tuesday - offered a
blunt assessment of Africa's crises,
including Nigeria's fight against Boko
Haram and its Islamist offshoot Ansaru.
The government in Abuja faces a
"prolonged armed insurgency" with
little prospect for resolution, the
briefing said, adding that the "security
situation in Nigeria is expected to
deteriorate".
"Prospects for conflict resolution are
likely to remain bleak - government
persists [in a] hardline counter-
insurgency response to the crisis that
has degenerated into human rights
abuses by the state and militants
alike."
Thousands of people have died in Boko
Haram's bloody five-year campaign to
establish an Islamic state in the mainly
Muslim north of Nigeria.
The insurgency, long a worry for
regional governments, gained
worldwide notoriety following the April
kidnapping of more than 200
schoolgirls from the remote town of
Chibok in Borno state.
Deadly bombings and killings have
become an almost daily occurrence in
Africa's largest economy, with civilians
bearing the brunt of the violence.
South Africa and Nigeria, both African
powerhouses, are also political and
economic rivals, vying for influence in
Beijing as well as lucrative Chinese
contracts.
Nigeria earlier this year surpassed
South Africa as the continent's largest
economy.
There are heightened fears that the
Boko Haram insurgency is spreading
after three car bombings in Abuja in as
many months and a similar attack in
Lagos last month.
Violence
Security experts say the overstretched
and under-resourced Nigerian military
is incapable of fighting an effective
counter-insurgency against an enemy
that is believed to have ties to al-Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb.
Rights groups, including Amnesty
International, have accused the
Nigerian authorities of carrying out
hundreds of extra judicial killings and
disappearances every year.
But the government has repeatedly
rejected the accusations.
South African intelligence also warned
the Chinese of a "threat of increased
militancy in the Niger Delta," where the
bulk of Nigeria's roughly two million
barrels of oil a day are produced, as
well as piracy off the Nigerian coast.
A rise in piracy off the Gulf of Guinea
has corresponded with a decline off the
coast of Somalia.
"Attacks [are] launched primarily from
Nigeria, with the aim of stealing from
vessels," the intelligence report said.
"Levels of violence [are] higher as
pirates are less concerned with
maintaining the well-being of hostages
than their Somalian counterparts," the
South Africans claimed.
It is not clear if the briefing - which is
not marked with any security
classification - is based on first hand
intelligence or open source material.
The South African National Defence
Force intelligence division is
responsible for gathering and
evaluating foreign military intelligence
and for counter-intelligence within the
military.
The report also provided a security
overview of several African regions
including the "ongoing lawlessness"
and "widespread humanitarian crisis" in
the Central African Republic.
It said the Christian anti-balaka groups
and "rogue elements" made up of
members of former armed forces were
"becoming increasingly organised" but
with no clear political objective.
In Somalia, the defence intelligence
report said it believed that the end of a
partial suspension of a UN arms
embargo would "assist in developing
the security sector".
But, it warned, there is a "risk of
weapons finding their way to al-
Shabaab or other hostile militias".
AFP

Source News24 :/

Nigeria is always the envy of many countries not only South Africa

MANGAM: Nigeria is always the envy of many countries not only South Africa

the contents of that article points to one thing.. drive investors away and I think it's time the Nigerian government start making harsh policies for their businesses and operations in some other African countries.. we keep quiet too much