Cornflakes for Jihad: The Boko Haram Origin Story.
Written by David Hundeyin, West Africa Weekly.
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram



Excerpt:
In March 2021, a 96 year-old businessman died in Rome, Italy. In his lifetime, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin might have amassed a personal fortune of close to half a billion dollars, but the death of NASCO Group’s multimillionaire founder barely made the news. At first glance, the only extraordinary thing about his life story was that it embodied the African entrepreneurship dream.

Nasreddin was an Eritrean who moved to Jos in Nigeria’s Plateau State, and grew his father’s small manufacturing business into a $460 million conglomerate involved in everything from breakfast cereal and confectionery to pharmaceuticals, real estate and energy. After many years of growth and success, he eventually handed his sprawling business empire over to his son Attia Nasreddin, and retired at an old, satisfied age.


Here's the full publication:
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram

Warning:
It's a long very lengthy write-up o!