[b]Nigeria has uncovered a spy cell run by militant Islamist group Boko Haram at the international airport in the capital Abuja [/b]apparently aimed at selecting targets for attack, the country's national security agency said.

In a statement late on Friday, the Department of State Services (DSS) said it discovered the ring on Monday and was working with aviation authorities to pre-empt any attack.

President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko Haram's six-year-old insurgency a priority, but a Reuters tally shows the jihadist group has killed more than 700 people in Nigeria in bomb attacks and shootings since he came to office on May 29.

The DSS said it had arrested a 14-year-old boy who said he had been instructed to spy on the airport's security procedures, including passenger screening and boarding processes, and report what he had learned.

It said the man who directed the boy had not been located.

"The service, in liaison with the aviation security of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, disrupted a spying network mounted by the Boko Haram terrorists," DSS spokesman Tony Opuiyo said in the statement.

"The service is working closely with major aviation stakeholders, especially the Aviation Security Department, to forestall any possible attack and to ensure adequate security at the airports."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/29/us-nigeria-spy-cell-idUSKCN0QY06020150829

Hey.. This is terrific! To figure those guys aren't in the forest as we've been cowed to believe. That is the CLASSIC TERRORISM huh?

Good move, let them check other major airports as well

DSS says they are working hard to prevent another attack in ABUJA!!

The way this bh use underage is alarming. Parents where are your children?

Abuja of all places
Mehn! No where is safe in this country!

GOOD JOB GUYS !

There must be increased surveillance all over abuja, abeg!!

Na wa oo

We pray this does not get out of hnd