The Boko Haram crisis has been listed as number eight on CCTV’s top 10 global crisis.
Boko Haram loosely translated as “Western education is forbidden”, but , with real name Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad) is a fanatical Islamic sect that has been waging war in the North Eastern part of the Nigeria since July 2009 when its leader, Mohammed Yusuf was killed. Yusuf is believed to have helped the then governor of the state, Ali Modu Sheriff win the governorship election in Borno State in 2007. A strain in the relationship between the former and latter , caused the sect which relatively practiced its unorthodox teachings in remote areas to go haywire, it is widely believed. On 26 July, security forces arrested nine Boko Haram members and confiscated weapons and bomb-making equipment.

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