Osogboprince:
An average easterner is happy that tye army has arrived the east and doing great jobs kill all them terrorist iponk cultists and low lifes

May the army do you you and your generations what they are currently doing in the east
May the engage high caliber weapons in civilian abodes from your generations to another
May they treat you so much in 100 folds

Nigerialabalaba:
omo ibo, dem b criminal impostors like you too. One day dem go catch all of una impostors.

Una no dey learn, na so Atiku win election for social media and come lose the true election. una lose for 2015, 2019 na so una go lose again for 2023 because
all of una na criminal impostors like you too.

Na that word Ibo go bury most of you
Naso Igboman wey Dey mind him shop get time to Dey open FB account up and down?
Una head no Dey ever correct.
How do you expect this man to ever function like this even if he is an expert?
What happened to Faahola, Makinde, etc. if it must be Yoruba?
Dem swear for una for this country?

seunolu7:
Jokes. Ibadan with countless startups sef no be African new tech hub yet. 14 year olds reading boom don turn newinu to African tech hub

The jealousy and bitterness in some of you is baffling
Elon Musk started coding at an early stage and so most successful developers
I wish I started on time but I am grateful where I am
This Bishop has taken a huge step and I pray more Bishops take a cue

adamsmith914:
Like El Rufai said, that Kaduna State is 3/4 of the size of The South East, What May happen in a remote village could be blown out of proportion, metropolitan Kaduna is as safe as Lagos State.

Again gibberish
Who is deceiving who?
Then why are the massive movements of people up North to the South recently?
Your logic also holds no water; it is rather the smaller Anambra can any issue be blown out of proportion unlike the large Kaduna where the bigger population can mask issues
Was the NDA not attacked and high ranking officers kidnapped and killed?
A whole country's "defense" academy oooo and you're saying its been blown out of proportion?
Una well done ooo

mrvitalis:
Cross river is not biafra yen yen yen

Please it is not and this is the major mistake some of us keep making
Please this Biafra should exclude any non-Igbo group for now, then if they wanna join of their own volition fine
I think this news is a joke as Cross River has their own Awka-Cross nation drive

BIgsenSE:

me?

i don't have power to fight war o

Lol
Ben come back here ooo
Stop running oooo
Anyway we are already in a bigger war in Nigeria against hunger, unemployment, bad Govt, evil esprit du corpse, etc

Ngeneukwuenu here is where that your useless epistle is needed

NgeneUkwenu:
They are Trapped in their mansions.

They are Removing the Government plate Numbers on their Vehicles because of IPOB.

They hardly move around in Convoy.

Most of them Ran to Abuja and Lagos to hide from their Unknown Gunmen.

They can't hold any election rally without a heavy Security in Southeast.

They have changed their Movement Routines and have dumped their flashy tinted cars.

The Chicken is coming home to roast, and now they are on the run to seek refuge outside the Promised land called Biafra Land.

What they have planted and nurtured for 7 years is beginning to germinate, and now they are running away from harvesting them.

They are tired of calling Fulani Herdsmen, they are now calling on Buhari to Negotiate with their holy sons called the "Unknown Gunmen"

Biafra is here at last!
All Hail Biafra!!!

#Chigozirim

You should be quoting this to the Northern elites not SE
Yes Anambra is hot only due to elections so tell this gibberish to your elites in the North whom terrorist have overtaken their towns and now collect tax from the people
Nonsense

helinues:


Bomb or banger?

Suddenly you’re now restricted to 3 words?
All of una for this NL eeeee…. I just Dey look una

tsdarkside:
you biafrans are crazy....you think amelika cares....??

even sef,how they wan control were the tucanos are used....

When ignorance talks it is known
Ask how they also track phones & cars too
Yeah we Biafrans are crazy cos we do things your mind not strength can’t even imagine
Deal with that

CUMIN:



It's Ibos, they have a large population in SW.


All this IPOB criminal will meet their match here

Are you in person even a match to anything?
Lady is standing trial for terrorism; a lady who can’t even hurt a fly while people who shot at & bombed a train are called vandals and you can do nothing
Don’t you see that you (not the Yorubas but you as a person) are just not even up to a cubic meter of air?

Slawal23:
The truth is that ipob has give some criminal group moral or confidence for them to release their prisoners.

IPOB seven in Oyo state?
I stopped Nigerian issue discussions or even praying or working for a better Nigeria cos some of you need to see the worse before they receive sense
It won’t stop, shebi Igbogho has been labeled a bh sponsor while the idiots named and caught by UAE were never apprehended by this same Govt?
Some of you’re daft and worse than this govt

IamWonderful:
I read that Igbos joined the dreaded Boko Haram, what are we saying,

Not just them all easterners joined BH too
Nonsense
We never push drug finish na to Dey dress on rags like mad people Dey wield AK47?
So you also believe Igbogho being linked with funding BH by your useless Malami is true?

Anyway I know you’re not Yoruba
Your IQ is definitely as low as Malami’s
NB: To well meaning people I don’t support drugs and will never try it but saying a trend with the Igbos

BIgsenSE:

you know why i love igbos.

they only know how to make mouth

If you think so then try wage a war with the state for 3yrs like we did and see if you’d survive it

ceej:


Why should you say you were married,when you were not even sure the marriage will happen..That is tantamount to lies..
Anyways it should not affect your immigrant visa because it is your sponsors profile that matters most..Meanwhile why did you apply for another visa when you already have one in process..una desperation no go put un for trouble

There's absolutely no wrong in applying for different visa types. In fact they do give on queue IV applicants visit visas too

younggcfr:
PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME COMMISSIONS ANOTHER WORLD CLASS TUITION FREE SCHOOL IN OGUN STATE NIGERIA �� ON THE 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

▪️Free tuition fee
▪️School meals
▪️Quality Education
▪️Free books and school uniforms

Thank you so much Dad for the wonderful and brilliant work. Our less privileged kids in ogun state can now go to school

#IStandWithPastorChris
#ChristEmbassy

GOD BLESS HIM

tafabaloo:
What do you call this while wearing Biafran flag if not subtle incitement and support for the unknown gunmen who have continued to kill his people.
This old man was really disappointing.

Until leaders and persons of influence in south east come out of their shells and dared these blood suckers, the violence would continue.
I hope it wld not be too late to realize that they are doing a great disservice to themselves than to Nigerians as a whole.

Na so Boko Haram take start.

Does that flag signify unknown gunmen or Biafra?
Who is this unknown gunmen?
IPOB which declared they were ESN and showed videos of their activities have also declined they are not UGM
But people that want Anambra by all means are not in any watchlist

Tinubuadvocate:
So it has gotten to this level in biafra land this is what we are saying should Nigeria government allow this people to leave Nigeria they will become a problematic to gulf of guinea territories. Soon they will be eating each other

What are all these pictures below?
You people are hyper hypocrites
Oba even has the logo everywhere but when it is Igbo it becomes problematic, right?
An Israel is rising in Africa and this has been your fear.
The Igbos hardly ever fought outside tribes more like the Yorubas did that some resulted in the takeover of Kwara so Igbos are no threat to any Guinea Gulf but people whom fought several wars in the past

seunmsg:
Those defending Peter Obi are well aware that he’s a crook and very guilty of all that allegations against him. He didn’t even deny some of the allegations but instead decided to claim ignorance.

Anyway, the journalists behind the Pandora papers have done their part. It is left for the CCB and other anti corruption agencies to take it up from there. His failure to declare the assets and operation of foreign account while holding public office are straight forward constitutional violations that doesn’t require extensive investigation before he can be convicted by the CCT. The evidence are there already.

He didn’t deny any of those allegations
Yes he didn’t declare on his children’s and it was a way to avoid inheritance tax just as abroad we infuse the names of our children into companies we own to evade taxes & it is illegal but can become illegal if not managed well
At least the guy wasn’t fingered stealing Anambra’s monies and yes he should pay for these offenses
Aside politics in your heart you know this is the cleanest of dirty political issues not like Orji Uzo Kalu and co

mybiz234:
Oyingboupdate, why are you not giving update about this one too?

Are you suddenly tired, you shameless Fulani slave?

It is not his agenda
The guy and the mods have some up their sleeves

post=106407270:

Until y'all learn how to live as brothers and sisters.
And stop seeing yourselves as better than other people.
Until yall renounce the TRIBALISM and RELIGION SHENANIGANS that the evil and corrupt politicians have engraved in your hearts since 1960, things will remain the same as it has always been.
No two ways about it.
Learn how to live in peace with all men.
We come on peace.
#BitterTruth
God bless Nigeria.
Peace out ✌

Assuming this was IPOB and see what this horrmonger could have been spilling here
Seeing sponsors of terrorists killing thousand of people and he has the mind to ask we live together?
I hope people are seeing these wicked people, their hate towards their frllow humans
No pity for the souls lost to these killings he is asking we live as brother?

dettolgel:
Afonja has mined this skull as usual.

Stop this rubbish
This is a human being
@OP I think he's been found

OyigboUpdate:


Atleast Imo state is now peaceful. Obiano doesn't want to bring the learning materials to Imo state

Upon all these shits about IPOB & MNK rubbish you've been posting here doing underdog job for your terrorist slave masters who couldn't even muster the machismo to call IPOB a terrorist organisation at the UN conference
I have given you a well researched referenced of good journalism of the plots of you doers of evil and how they've been donating monies for the killing of human beings
Shameless people

AreaFada2:


A serious govt would strengthen institutions and mechanisms to check agaist any official's ability to just move govt money at all let alone keep it for two years unnoticed.

If they can move govt money into dom accounts, they can also move billions into oil sector business, make huge profits and return the money later.

My brother I don tire sef for this country
You're right

Even more interestingly, when I do some digging into Mr. Haruna, I discover something potentially even more alarming. It will be recalled that in September 2021, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele claimed that a significant portion of dollars bought by Bureau de Change (BDC) operators in Nigeria goes into illegal importation of arms. Speaking at the end of the monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting, he said:

“Whether it’s Boko Haram, kidnapping and all sorts of nefarious activities, BDCs take our country’s dollar and sell to people to go and buy arms and ammunition to come and hurt us. That’s what people want us to continue to do. We cannot do that any longer. We can’t. If you have any legal, legitimate business you want to conduct, please take your business to a bank, they will sell you forex.”

A search of Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission database for the name “Shahru Haruna” turns up a plethora of companies registered under the “Dan Diyma” name.

A man identified by the Nigerian government itself as a security threat for funding terror via money laundering was somehow allowed to own and operate a BDC, which according to the CBN governor, could well have been doing precisely that. A CBN circular from October 2020 confirms that at least as recently as last year, Haruna Shahru was allowed to run a BDC in Nigeria, potentially giving him access to the very funding infrastructure that he should not have under any circumstances.

A glance at one of the other “Dan Diyma” business entities shows that even the email address used to register this entity - purportedly a petroleum company, albeit one with zero identifiable corporate footprint - belongs to Dan Diyma BDC, which says everything about how important the BDC is to Haruna Shahru. The question left unanswered is “Why?”

In case the reader is wondering if this picture can get any worse, the answer is yes. It can, and it will. Take note of the name circled in red below.

Zahraddeen Shahru Haruna is Shahru Haruna’s son, so it is no surprise for him to show up as a director on his father’s BDC registration documents. There’s just one problem. Remember Emefiele saying that BDCs facilitate terror financing? Well just a month before he made that comment, a circular was sent out to banks by the CBN with the names of 18 companies and individuals whose bank accounts were to be frozen with a PND (Post No Debit) mandate. Very unusually, no reason was given for the instruction, and also unusually, on a list made up of corporate accounts, there was an account belonging to an individual. His name?

From Eritrea With Love
We now rejoin our Eritrean friend in the year 2006. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has recently been gazetted, and one of the first things its counter-terrorism unit does is to freeze all assets linked to NASCO Group Nigeria Limited. Apparently, Mr. Nasreddin has been doing some creative accounting to hide the fact that he is moving money around the world to fund Islamist terror organisations. Or at least, that was what the Nigerian government itself wrote to the UN in the same letter.

A Wikileaks cable from 2002 hints at American hesitancy on the subject of freezing NASCO’s Nigerian assets due to the economic implications for Plateau State and political implications in Nigeria.

The real proof of Nasreddin’s double life however, comes from the US Treasury Department which publishes a comprehensive account of how he launders and moves money around the world for terrorist entities. Want to hear the real kicker? Nasreddin has been funding and laundering money for none other than GSPC - the Algerian terrorist group which Yakubu Katsina and Shahru Haruna are also involved with at the exact same time.

The Nigerian jihadis being trained in Algerian camps in 2002 will later return to Nigeria and make up the core of what will later become known as “Boko Haram.” And - what a coincidence - NASCO is also based in Jos, which so happens to be the headquarters of the Izala Movement and its many North African dalliances.

Using money made from selling market-leading FMCGs to Nigerian consumers, a cross-border network of terrorism is being nurtured that will someday kill the very kids eating NASCO cornflakes every morning.

And it’s all thanks to this nice gentleman from Eritrea.

Ahmed Idris Nasreddin

Nasreddin however, is a very rich man. Like all very rich men, he appears to have a way around problems that would ground other people. In 2005, Lisa Myers and Aram Roston of the NBC News Investigative Unit discover that despite his designation as a terror financier in the US, Nasreddin’s Nigerian business empire and his Italian hotel are still operating as normal. Quoted in the story, Victor Comras, a former terror-finance expert at the State Department says:

“This isn't a loophole, this is failure to implement the sanctions appropriately. He's been involved in terrorist financing. Let's put him out of business.”

That would prove easier said than done because just 2 years later in 2007, the LA Times publishes a story indicating that - to all intents and purposes - Nasreddin has cut some kind of deal with the US government, likely involving asset forfeitures, to get his name off the list of terror financiers. He has been indicted for funding terror, some of which has found its way into the lives of the Nigerian consumers who have made him fabulously wealthy, but he is off the hook.


For the people who have died in the Madalla Christmas Day Bombings facilitated by the people he funded and supported, there will be no justice. Nasreddin gets to hand over NASCO to his son, and he lives out the rest of his life in peace and comfort, dying at the ripe old age of 96.

Friends and Alliances in High Places
I mentioned earlier, that the date of Yakubu Katsina’s initial attempt to establish terror cells and Taliban training camps in Kano and Katsina was important. Here is why. Remember Abubakar Gumi’s stated position that Muslims should never accept a non-Muslim as ruler? It just so happens that the concerted push for Sharia Law across 12 of Northern Nigeria’s states lines up perfectly with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo as president in 1999.

Examining the eras of Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalam Abubakar as consecutive Muslim Nigerian heads of state, it is nearly impossible to establish the existence of directed and coordinated push for Islamic law in that area. Following Obasanjo’s entry however, Zamfara, Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kebbi, Yobe, Kaduna, Niger and Gombe decided in quick succession to embrace a separate penal code from southern Nigeria, based on Sharia law.

Understanding the political resonance of the Izala Movement in Northern Nigeria and the power wielded by the indicted terror financiers and terrorists who still sit on its board is key to understanding 2 things about terrorism in Nigeria.

Boko Haram is a logical development growing out of the rise of political Islam in Nigeria, with its roots in Salafism, popularised by Abubakar Gumi and his ideological heirs. It is impossible to divorce Abubakar Gumi’s use of Saudi money and Wahhabi indoctrination in the 1970s, from the adoption of Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria, the rise of violent Salafists like Abubakar Shekau and Isa Pantami, and the eventual inevitable mass uprising against the Nigerian state that will take place in the north.


While the Boko Haram brand is an unattractive one, the goals of Boko Haram are by no means unattractive to those who make up the ideological core of the Izala Movement, which is Nigeria’s most influential Islamic sect. Aminu Daurawa who famously praised the September 11 attacks in a 2001 sermon with a quote claiming that “Allah is a suicide bomber,” would later become the inaugural chair of Kano’s Hisbah police and also remains a high ranking Izala Movement member. With sympathisers and collaborators up to and including President Buhari himself, the Izala Sect has no incentive or reason to fundamentally rethink or change its ideology - which is directly and provably linked to Salafist terrorism.


As long as Isa Pantami’s “Mr Zero Zero” (a reference to an ideologically pure Muslim with zero tolerance for bid’ah. i.e a hardline Salafist) retains his obvious and unapologetic sympathy for an organisation with clear and ongoing links to the enemy he claims to be fighting against as Nigeria’s president, the Izala Movement has no incentive to reinvent itself. There is no way that the Nigerian president is not aware of Yakubu Musa Hassan Katsina’s history as a known terrorist, as well as the Izala Movement’s extremely problematic history and current composition. And yet, as recently as 2018, President Buhari was pictured in Aso Rock meeting with Izala Movement president Abdullahi Bala Lau, Yakubu Musa Hassan Katsina, Kabiru Gombe and Ibrahim Jalo Jalingo.

May be an image of 4 people and people smiling
It is either I have more access to information about his friends and associates than the Nigerian president does, with a plethora of intelligence and information gathering agencies at his disposal, or he knows all this already and he has chosen a side. Clearly, to the Izala Movement, this picture taken in 2018, was a statement. An Obasanjo government may have arrested Yakubu Katsina and his likes in 2005, but 13 years later, Katsina’s ideological ally is in office standing solidly next to him, as he stood solidly next to Isa Pantami. The Izala Movement has won and everybody else has lost.

The only other angle of high level involvement not yet addressed is that of the Jordanian government. Recall that Yakubu Katsina was named among the world’s 500 Most Influential Muslims by a Jordanian state-backed NGO? Well it turns out that the NGO in question - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre - is itself affiliated with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought. A visit to this institute’s website reveals something strange.

One of its publications titled ‘Report on the Inter-Religious Tensions and Crisis in Nigeria’ published in May 2012 has the following to say about ending violence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria.


This report, produced by a state-funded NGO in Jordan as far back as 2012, is prima facie evidence of a coordinated international campaign of strategic disinformation for the purpose of framing the reality of terrorism in Nigeria in a way that is completely dishonest. Making reference to alleged income disparity between Nigeria’s “Christian South” and “Muslim North,” the report attempts to portray the latter as the victim of economic bullying and poverty, without citing data to support this conclusion.

Very tellingly, at a time when conversations about violence related to nomadic cattle herding were not yet present in Nigeria’s political equation, a Jordanian organisation with links to Yakubu Katsina - a known Nigerian terrorist - was already recommending “grazing routes” as a solution for a problem that for the most part, did not actually exist yet.

9 years later, the question is…how did they know

A Scholar From Zamfara
The year is 1955, and a 33 year-old Islamic scholar from Gummi in modern day Zamfara State has made his way to Mecca for his first Hajj pilgrimage. Alongside him is a certain Ahmadu Bello, who is the Premier of Northern Nigeria. During this trip, the scholar impresses both Ahmadu Bello and the Saudi King Sa’ud with his Arabic translation skills. He rapidly makes a big impression on many locals and clerics in Mecca.

These relationships will later become his most valuable asset following the events that take place after his subsequent return to Nigeria. Upon returning to Nigeria, he takes up positions teaching Arabic Studies at Islamic schools in Kano and Kaduna. His style of teaching focuses on educating his students about the differences between Islamic religious doctrine and local customs. Based on his strict Sunni understanding of the Qur’an, he teaches his students to adopt a ‘pure’ Islamic identity at the expense of practises that he considered bid’ah (roughly translated as ‘innovation’ or ‘corruption’).

What is a bidah? | Hadith quotes, Islamic teachings, Islamic messages
He also becomes the first Islamic scholar to translate the Qur’an from Arabic into Hausa, which puts him in a uniquely influential position comparable to that of Ajayi Crowther in 19th century southwestern Nigeria. Using this leverage, he becomes an increasingly powerful figure in Northern Nigeria, with his essentialist views on Islamic doctrine gaining popularity. To him, the existing Sufi orders of Northern Nigeria are polluted with bid’ah and unfit for purpose. He becomes well known for attacking the Tijaniya and Qadriyya brotherhoods during his appearances on Radio Kaduna, while advocating for a ‘return’ to ‘Islamic purity.’

Following the death of his friend and benefactor Ahmadu Bello, the scholar finds himself in a precarious situation. The new Nigerian federal government led by soldiers has a motive to crack down on anyone who is outspoken and influential. He may be a giant in Northern Nigeria, but he is a giant with feet of clay. His solution is to seek financial, doctrinal and political help from his friends in Mecca. The Saudis, as always, are ready to help.

His Saudi backers are keen to use him to espouse the Saudi Arabian state’s official interpretation of Islam, which is based on the work of 18th century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab. This fundamentalist doctrine, often known as Wahabbism fits very closely with the teachings of our hero in Northern Nigeria, and he enthusiastically sets about gathering support for this new Saudi-funded project. In the 2009 book ‘The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia,’ historian David Commins says:

“The [Saudi-funded Muslim World] League also sent missionaries to West Africa, where it funded schools, distributed religious literature and gave scholarships to attend Saudi religious universities. These efforts bore fruit in Nigeria's Muslim northern region with the creation of a movement (the Izala Society) dedicated to wiping out ritual innovations. Essential texts for members of the Izala Society are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's treatise of God's unity and commentaries by his grandsons.

Prepared By LBM September 11, ppt download
Reaching out to his erstwhile students across Kaduna and Kano over the course of the 1970s, the scholar-turned-politician slowly builds a coalition of strategically-aligned individuals who will someday become very powerful people in Northern Nigeria. In 1978, one of his prominent students, Sheikh Ismaila Idris takes charge of this increasingly powerful but somewhat unofficial movement, and calls it Jama'atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunnah), also known as JIBWIS.

Based in Jos and known colloquially as the Izala Movement, this organisation will go on to become the most influential Islamic body in Nigeria over the next few decades. Its members will become some of Nigeria’s most revered Imams and clerics. They will achieve high ranks in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Banditry: Taliban victory warning for those considering military onslaught -Gumi - Punch Newspapers
They will sit on the Federal Executive Council.

Pantami threatens legal action over allegation of Boko Haram link
JIBWIS will come to exert a level of influence over Nigeria’s national politics and governance that is unprecedented for a religious body in Nigeria. Soon, it will become almost impossible to achieve power in many parts of Northern Nigeria without identifying with the Izala Movement.

Among other things, the scholar states that Muslims should never accept a non-Muslim as ruler, which can be interpreted as a call for insurrection against a Christian Nigerian president. He is never held to account for this statement. In any case, he no longer believes that writing books or teaching people about Islam will on their own, lead to an Islamic renaissance in Northern Nigeria. Now he is all about partnership and politicking. He maintains his membership in Northern Nigeria’s legacy Islamic group, Jama'atu Nasril Islam (“Group for the Victory of Islam”), but he is unmistakably the beating heart of the new Izala Movement. To all intents and purposes, this is the birth of modern Salafist Islam in Nigeria.

Without firing a shot or winning an election, this Islamic scholar has become one of the most powerful men in Northern Nigeria

His name?

Abubakar Gumi - Wikipedia
Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi is the son of Abubakar Mahmud Gumi.

The Clerics, The Saudis and What Happened in Algeria
Fast forward 33 years. It is Christmas Day in 2011 and Abubakar Gumi has been dead for over 19 years. A bomb suddenly goes off at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, killing 35 people and wounding a further 52. Almost simultaneously, a series of coordinated bomb attacks and shootings take place at churches in Jos, Gadaka and Damaturu. An obscure Islamist group calling itself Boko Haram claims responsibility for the attacks.

During the trial of the main suspect Kabiru Umar A.K.A Kabiru Sokoto 2 years later, a masked witness claims that an Algerian Islamist group provided funding and support worth N40,000,000 ($250,000 at the time) to carry out the attacks. To the general public, it is unclear what the link is between Islamists in Northern Nigeria and well-funded terror groups in North Africa.

Shame On Those Shepherds Who Lead My Sheep To The Slaughter.
To those in the know however, the incidents of December 25, 2011 are not only expected, but are likely to intensify and become more regular. This is because while the Nigerian public up to this point has been fed with what amounts to a tiny percentage of the actual story behind the Boko Haram group, this group has in fact been incubating and nurtured at the highest levels of the theological, economic and political spaces in Northern Nigeria. Boko Haram in reality, is so much bigger than Mohammed Yusuf and Abubakar Shekau that reducing it to those 2 men serves to miss the actual story spectacularly.

To start to get some of the picture of what Boko Haram is and where it came from, let us retreat from 2011 to 2006 to read an excerpt from a letter written by the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Aminu B. Wali, addressed to the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. This letter is available in full here from the official repository for UN documents. Written by the Nigerian government to the UN, it lays out the measures it has taken to fight terrorism in Nigeria. Take special note of the names mentioned in bold.


A Wikileaks cable from 2002 confirms that this arrest actually did take place, only for the suspect to be released inexplicably after 27 days in detention.


For those who are not aware, Yakubu Musa Kafanchan, also known as Sheikh Yakubu Musa Katsina and Yakubu Musa Hassan is a founding member of the Izala Movement (JIBWIS), and is in fact, the current Chairman of its board of trustees and the Chairman of the Katsina State JIBWIS chapter. He is a widely respected Islamic cleric and a very close personal friend and public associate of - no prizes for guessing - Isa Ali Pantami. Yes, that Isa Pantami.

Official Visit to Elder Statesman, Sheikh Yakubu Musa Hassan Katsina, shortly before proceeding for the formal launch of the National Emergency Toll-Free Number (112) and the Commissioning of the Katsina State Emergency Communications Center.
Mr. Kafanchan was even recently named as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, a Jordanian government-affiliated NGO. More on that later.

Apparently Mr. Kafanchan has been known to the Nigerian security forces as the leader of a terror network trying to set up terror cells in Katsina and Kano as far back as 2002. Keep that date in mind because it will become even more important as we unravel this further. According to official Nigerian government communication to the UN, this real-life Islamic terror organiser is known to have affiliations with a certain ‘GSPC’ group trying to carry out terror attacks in Nigeria, and he was even arrested for it in 2005 - 4 whole years before the world ever heard of a “Boko Haram.”

Yakubu Musa Katsina - Wikipedia
Yet in 2021 he is not only a free man, but a powerful free man, with access to federal ministers, state governors and President Muhammadu Buhari himself.


And then there is the GSPC angle. ‘GSPC’ stands for “Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat” (Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat). A full primer on the origin of the group and what it stands for is available here. Cliff notes summary: It is an illegal Salafi terrorist organisation based in Algeria which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. It specialises in providing training, funding and support to Islamists and jihadi fighters around the world using a vast global network of smugglers, money launderers and rat lines.

Which brings us to the second name in the above letter excerpt. Alhaji Shahru Haruna, in the Nigerian government’s own words, is a GSPC agent who funds the activities of people like Kabiru Sokoto by laundering proceeds from smuggled goods. He too, was arrested and held on terror financing charges. Somehow he too, is not only a free man today, but a powerful one in his own right too.

It will not surprise the reader to find out that Alhaji Haruna is also a ranking member of the Izala Movement. According to these posts I dug up from Facebook accounts linked to the Kano State Izala Movement chapter, Alhaji Haruna is the Deputy President of the Kano State chapter of JIBWIS. Like Yakubu Kafanchan, this indicted terror funder not only retains his position in Nigeria’s most influential Muslim body, but is also a respected Islamic preacher with access to the Who’s Who of Nigerian politics and governance.

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.


In an official statement released after Nasreddin’s death in March, Plateau State governor Simon Lalong said:

“NASCO has over the years remained a major employer of labour in Plateau and continues to contribute to the economic prosperity of the State and Nigeria at large through tax revenue and corporate social responsibility.”

Well that was the cover story, anyway.

In reality, as is so often the case in Nigeria, the gap between the facts and the information released to the public is so wide as to be scarcely believable. What on earth could this shrewd, respectable businessman who looked like he could not hurt a fly have done, to put him in the same article as a story about the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation? Why would the brand he built, which to many Nigerians evokes memories of a beloved childhood breakfast staple, appear in the same sentence as Boko Haram?

To answer these questions, our story begins on another continent in 1955, some 8 years before his father would move to Nigeria and establish NASCO Group.

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https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram

OyigboUpdate:
I wonder if these ESN terrorist don't have the address to DSS office Abuja.

Tell that shit to your useless FG who wants to usurp the machineries of the state for political gains like they did with Imo state
Your terrorist givt whom have refused to look into names given to them by another country of those funding boko Haram are the real terrorists
Pantami and the CEO of Nasco whom have been sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria are the ones you should talk to
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram

This guy maybe right oooo
I’m not an expert here but if the Govt holds over 6million dollars then they don’t believe in our currency and will do anything to inflate dollars too
They should start with Govt funds
Imagine someone moving 10million of Govt funds to a dorm account, hodl it for 2yrs, draws it and return same 10m to Govt. They have made over almost 5m from that money while causing a shortage of dolar supply and thus inflating dollar

Funny and useless man
And the boko haram sponsors identified and named by Dubai are yet to even been questioned by Nigeria
Garbage man

Lostchild:
I refuse to help a needy pregnant woman because I am running from my real self. Yes, I needed to save my peace and sanity

In 2018, I move to a new place, a married woman with children started and always comes to meet me to give her whatever she wants from me which I always do. One day, the husband came to me with anger, and told me to stay away from his wife. I said, OK.

Even If i use common sense - helping people I know has landed me in too many conflicts, they are just too over many for me to overlook anymore.

Because of the many years of constant betrayals that lead me to regret my life, I move to a new town and decide to start afresh. In the past I have shown too much financial care and love for women that backfire and work against me. so I decide to stay focus on myself for the first time of my life.

After living in this new place for about six months, a pregnant woman who also live in the same visinity ask me to help her. She told me to lend her some money.

She told me that, she had not eaten since morning and she wants to cook something to eat and her hubby is out of town and will be back later.

She told me she will refund me when her hubby comes back. She was pregnant, hungry and need help.

I badly wanted to but I instantly had many flash back and I told her, I don't have the money right now. I told her, why can't you go and meet that your fellow business woman down there? she may be able to help you, she replied me with God forbid.

The money she asked me, I have it in my base, three times over but I refuse to give her. I painfully refused to help her because nigeria society has made me look like a fool.

To save my peace - I just have to only help strangers and not give help to the people I know

Did I do wrong?

What do you think?

My advice to you
Do not ever let this wicked world rub itself off on you
Be who you really are and trust me GOD will bless you for what you do