HONESTFACT101: Over 300 fighters loyal to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) trained in Libya and other countries joined their colleagues in a long battle that led to the final fall of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau on Wednesday. According to a report by Daily Trust, a fierce battle that lasted several days between the two factions led to the death of dozens of vicious commanders and hundreds of foot soldiers from both sides, with multiple sources saying Shekau has killed himself or fatally injured himself to the extent that he might not survive. It was gathered that most of the fighters that fought for the defeat of Shekau on Wednesday were aged between 12 and 30. “They are actually children of some ISWAP members killed over time,” a security source said. According to him, “Others are youths sourced during raids on multiple islands around the Lake Chad. The ISWAP carefully selected the youths. It was therefore much easier for recruitment as some of the youths willingly joined the group and others were forcefully conscripted. “Some of them were born during the wartime and others were very young when their parents joined the group around 2002. After their parents died because of illness or confrontation with Nigerian troops, the children naturally took over and when the group split into two in 2016, those that moved on their own or forcefully taken to the shores of Lake Chad under the umbrella of ISWAP had an upper hand in terms of training because they were taken to Libya for training in guerrilla warfare and other purposes. “Others were sent to Syria and Somalia… They were taken to many countries abroad for training. However, those that came back especially between March and April this year took an active part in confronting Shekau in the last few days. They launched a serious offensive alongside other top commanders and fighters already on ground and they succeeded in taking over,” he said. Another credible source said some of the 300 youths were trained as “medical doctors, paramedics, engineers, IT specialists, bomb specialists and mechanics.” He added that among them were women “who serve as nurses or cooks while others have gun- handling skills, meaning they can partake in combat operations.” He said after their return from abroad, they were camped at a village called Shuwaram in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. It had been reported that ISWAP fighters, armed with sophisticated weapons had penetrated the infamous Sambisa Forest from different fronts and surrounded the place Shekau used as a safe sanctuary for years.
They reportedly killed many of his fighters and forced him to surrender. A signal from security sources indicated that when Shekau discovered that it was the end of the road for him, and ISWAP fighters had directed him to relinquish his position as the grand amir and successor to the founder of the group Mohammed Yusuf, he opted for suicide by detonating the explosives he strapped to his body. However, the AFP news agency reported that when Shekau reached the point of no return as he was surrounded by ISWAP fighters, he shot himself in the chest, fell on the ground while bleeding profusely but was whisked away to an unknown destination by some of his surviving loyal fighters. Another source said ahead of the invasion of Sambisa by the factional group, one of the top commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and his lieutenants had visited the shores of the Lake Chad in the company with ISWAP leader Goni Mustafa. “The entourage were seen on two boats with ISIS flag. Some of those in the entourage were light- skinned people possibly from Libya or Syria. It was only Mustafa that was black. They first visited Marte before they proceeded to Sabon Tumbu. “They also visited Kirta, Kusuma and Kwallaram where they held meetings with commanders and other fighters,” the source said. The source said after the strategy meeting, the visiting terrorists left and from that time, the ISWAP fighters started mobilising ahead of launching attacks on Sambisa Forest. “Some of them gathered at Kurnuwa, Kayuwa and Tumbin Jaki before they launched the offensive. They had RPGs, GPMGs and AA guns on some vehicles,” he said. He added that the attackers also moved their “vulnerable women and children” from the Marte area to some locations around Kukawa. Another source said before they aimed at Sambisa Forest, the ISWAP fighters were responsible for the recent attacks in Damasak, Marte, Mainok, Dikwa and Maiduguri towns in Borno as well as in Geidam in Yobe State. “They did not target civilians in most of their attacks; rather, they launched attacks against constituted authorities including security forces. The group handpicked and killed people perceived as enemies such as members of a volunteer security group, CJTF. “On the other side, Shekau and his followers operated from the southern parts of Borno State, mostly around the Mandara Mountains, Sambisa National Park and the Alagarno forest. The group had carried out several deadly attacks on its targets including civilians. Shekau was strict on his followers and did not tolerate rebellious behaviour… He had killed several of his renegade commanders and that was why many of those alive ditched him,” he said. Daily Trust also reported that before the ISWAP fighters moved en masse to Sambisa, military operatives had launched several attacks on their hideouts in the northern parts of Borno State while air raids continued unabated. “The military had sustained onslaught against the group which has its hideouts in the semi-arid landscape with sparse vegetation. Their enclaves are being decimated and with time they will have no hiding place,” he said. A source said the group allegedly resolved to dislodge Shekau with the intent of relocating to Sambisa and the mountainous areas to evade air attacks by the military jets. “It was not difficult for the group to locate and launch an attack on the Shekau-led base in Sambisa. There was fierce confrontation before Shekau succumbed and agreed to negotiate with ISWAP commanders. It was during the meeting that an explosion occurred and it was not clear whether or not Shekau was among those killed in the scene,” the source said. He said it was likely that Shekau had survived the offensive and fled to another hideout. “He had survived several attacks in which he was proclaimed dead,” he said. The source said some of the followers of Shekau who were forced to flee the violent confrontation had sought refuge in different locations in the forest and were ready to pay “deep allegiance” to anybody declared as overall leader. A security situation report trending on social media said Shekau must have been killed during the struggle. The reports stated that: “On 19th May 2021, about 1829hours, ISWAP top fighter Baana Duguri-on this selector – geolocated around Sambisa Forest, Pulka, Gwoza LGA, BRS, informed ISWAP logistics commander Modu-Sulum- geolocated opposite General Hospital Konduga LGA Borno State that they killed Abubakar Shekau, overall BH leader in Sambisa Forest. “Duguri disclosed that the ISWAP fighters’ team surrounded the BH leader with his team and shooting ensued between the 2 factions. Duguri further added that Shekau detonated a bomb and killed himself when he observed that the ISWAP fighters wanted to capture him alive. “Furthermore, Duguri informed Sulum that the two sides also lost some fighters during the shooting…” Meanwhile, the Nigerian military had reportedly placed all Borno State commands of the Nigerian Army and Air Force on alert.
A bunch ragtag unit of less than a battalion strength were able to penetrate the infamous Sambisa Forest from different fronts, a thing Nigerian armed forces could not achieve. If this is remotely correct, it is safe to say that Boko Haram is a unit among the Fulani armed forces cum Nigerian armed forces.
I honestly blame this level of crap on moronic southerners and partly middle belt goons who joined the northern region of Nigeria to prosecute a war against Ndigbo and Biafrans.
kingthreat: Just know one thing. The moment Biafra is declared all properties your people have in the Southwest and North will be claimed. If you like complain to UN, nobody send una.
You are one of the reasons Nigeria is called Basket of fools. You are entitled to your laziness.
blues234: Well, I think they fell for it. I earlier said, the attack could have been staged managed to paint ESN black. The colossal mistake is the wide support those UGM got online from members of IPOB and other Igbos. Kanu should have made it clear, that he has nothing to do with UGM, that is if he is not the one behind it. Besides, why is Kanu not working to get his organization de-proscribed? At least the killing needs stop asap
UGM remains unknown as the U suggests in UGM. How did you discern an IPOB member through mere rant on social media? The declaration of the existence of ESN was not secret. There has never a time Kanu or any member of IPOB claimed affiliation with UGM. Why have you followed the silly federal government of Nigeria to swim in a muddy water? There is no iota of intellect associate with the current government of Nigeria.
The order was not exclusive to SouthEast so no point pitching Ibos and Buhari against each other
The order states that anybody carrying an assualt automatic rifle like Ak47 must be gunned down, no matter where or when
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Why now? The Fulani herdsmen have been carrying AK47, G3 and CETME freely for very long time and such order was not issued. Even when certain communities were razed to ground by assault rife trotting Fulani herdsmen, such order was not in the view of nepotistic goon from the Katsina State.
QuotaSystem: Make that 19 Governors + 1 Citizen because I am also in FULL support...
but bear in mind that the incidence of FAKE, SUBSTANDARD AND DANGEROUS spare parts, rethreaded tires & FAKE DRUGS will soon be history in the North and their merchants of death severely punished.
The picture is not retreading of a tire but adding groove to a worn out tire. It is done in auto racing where none grooved tires are made to have a grip or traction. You can go to Amazon and get simple instruments to groove a tire. Most Nigerians have silly education.
QuotaSystem: Is the sale of FAKE spare parts not criminal?
Is the sale of fake, retreaded tyres not criminal? Tyres that fail and cause fatal accidents claiming the lives of innocent Nigerians?
Fake medicines nko? Did MyPikin teething mixture made in the east not lead to the death of several innocent Nigerian babies? Do you know how many criminals bring concealed fake drugs daily to the North under the guise of bringing spare parts?
Nobody has the monopoly of bigoted madness concealed under the toga of insecurity. There will surely be consequences.
How can a jackass know a fake spare part when he or she has not produced a pin? The retreading of tire is not criminal anywhere in the world as long as the tires met the standard stipulated by transportation authorities. Anything built by man is subject to fail. It is complete idiocy to brand anything fake when one does not have the so-called genuine alternative. Drugs have generics which are not fake.
I guess nobody has monopoly on anything. By the way, I think these idiotic shenanigans would cease to prevail if the shithole called Nigeria could be unconditionally disintegrated.
I am not only thinking of state police but national guard. Each State should have guardsmen. It is better to raise a child than to repair a broken man. Nigeria is a broken man that cannot be repaired.
SmartPolician: I learnt that Azikiwe was just a ceremonial head while Tafawa Belewa called all the shots. I don't even know why anyone would want to be a president in such democratic arrangement.
Everyone in the footage is probably dead. RIP to them. As you read this, just know that you will die someday. Eschew tribal hate, violence and religious fanaticism
BTW, how come we don't hear the names of these founding fathers' children in today's Nigeria? At least we don't hear their names as leading business tycoons, technocrats or politicans.
You did not sound smart as your handle name tends to suggest. Where did you learn such crap and who taught you?
Footage of the President of the First Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe leaving Lagos Airport for medical treatment in the United Kingdom.
"The President of Nigeria, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, left Lagos on Saturday to fly to London where he is to undergo medical treatment.
The Nigeria Parliament did not sit on Saturday as all Federal Minister and MP's had been asked to be at the Lagos Airport to say goodbye to the President.
The 60 year old Head of State passed between lines of armed police as he drove to the airport through the troubled outskirts of Lagos,parts of which lis within the Western Region where violence and arson followed the recent disputed elections. The small crowds who had gathered to see him off chanted their traditional salute of "Zik, Zik" to the President as he passed by.
The President, who was seen off by the Nigerian Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was accompanied by two Nigerian doctors. He has been ill for some time but the nature of his illness has not yet been disclosed."
1. Azikiwe was seen off by senior officials of the Nigerian state with an accompanying military parafe by the Nigerian Army's Brigade of Guards.
2. The civilian component was headed by the Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubaker Tafawa Balewa.
3. Among the service chiefs were Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, the Army Chief of Staff and Commodore J.E.A. Wey. Also present were Oberst Wolfgang Thimmig, the second Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force, and Louis Orok Edet, the Inspector General of Police.
4. Azikiwe did not return to Nigeria until February 1966 by which time the First Republic had come to an end following the Army mutiny of January 15th 1966.
Ironsi was GOC of the Nigerian army not the Chief of Staff. Commodore J.E.A. Wey was head of Navel Operations as well as Oberst Wolfgang Thimmig, a German, who head of Air Force Operations.
helinues: There is something I have been questioning personally regarding SE population..
If majority of them are Christians which means they mostly practiced monogamy, why is there population almost the same with SW population that has almost 50/50 Christians and Muslims..
Someone should clear my ignorant
I guess as usual your stream of thought plays intellectual trick on you.
Crownbefitsme: Inspector General of Police (IGP) has berated governors who are clamouring for state police saying they are inviting anarchy.
Speaking at the Open Government Partnership Week in Abuja, the IGP said those governors asking for state police are doing so for selfish purpose because they want to use the instrument of state police against their political opponents.
The IGP, represented by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Lemu Sanusi, said: “But state police will bring anarchy. Look at what is happening with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Kaduna. With state police what will the situation be? If there is an armed robbery case, a governor cannot send state police. What the governors are looking for are instruments to defeat their political opponents.”
Minister of State, Budget and National Planning and co-chair of Open Government Partnership, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba said that after the EndSARS protest in October, last year, the relationship between the citizens and police worsened. He said the government is trying to repair the damaged relationship through the Open Government Partnership.
Who are these fools trying to deceive? Nigerian Police is now an oppressive instrument used by politicians and well-to-dos in the society. Is there any anarchy greater than the ones currently prevailing in the shithole called Nigeria? Every paramilitary unit in Nigeria is no now the domain of northern region of Nigeria.
The answer to the goofy question is capital no. Lagos can never be an answer to Miami, Florida. The intellectualism of the USA and Nigeria is century apart and mannerism of the people has no similarity. I guess dreams are left for the daydreamers.
From #Gaza now: “I lost my friend at the start of this brutal aggression, She was killed along with her husband and her five son and three year old daughter..” #GenocideinGaza
Mee:
Miko Peled is a Jew and a son of an Israeli General.
Where are the Christian Worshippers of the genocidal Israeli savages in Nigeria? The bloodthirsty killers that you are worshipping erased a whole family from existence.
Do the Bible sanctioned the murderous slaughter of a man, his wife, 5 sons and three year old daughter? Does the Bible sanctioned this?
#IsraeliTerrorism
#ElbinawiTweets
I had always cherished to design my country toward the State of Israel. The enemies of the state, born or unborn, shall perish.
BlessingDAMMY: I am so ashamed of that Igbo terror group called IPOB - the most incompetent in the world! Common terrorism, they cannot execute effectively! The Nigerian army picking them up like beans...
I am compelled to question the integrity of Tiv people of Nigeria. One of the reasons January 15, 1966 coup was instigated remains the fallout of 1964 Tiv riot. Yet the war ensured, Tiv people were the first to join Fulani-Hausa-Kanuri northern region to fight the eastern. In fact, the ringleader of Tiv people in the riot, J S Tarka was the first to connived with Nigeria and Mobile Oil Corporation to betray Biafra and Ndigbo in USA. It is not a pity the same Fulani will turn around to chase Tiv people into Benue River.
Igbochief001: Honestly it was a big mistake by the too ... they had opportunity to make the biafra struggle even more popular but they failed ....let's hope it never happens again
Africans are not wired to take stand. They always suffer from inferior mentality. Anybody can see the stupidity flow from their faces.
budaatum: Kanu is just pissed off that Super Eagles players, Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi have, with their right to freely speak, declared for Nigeria.
It's not as if Biafra will be sending a team to the Olympics or the World Cup anytime soon after all.
It is a mark of idiocy to see an Igbo person display a flag of the shithole called Nigeria in such a platform.
Where did he say Port Harcourt being part of Rivers State makes Igweocha or town none Igbo? Are remotely insinuating Rivers State equals to none Igbo? Is Delta State also equate to Asaba as none Igbo? Now understand why some people call Nigeria basket of fools.
jerseyboy: Igbos made him a target for Unity Begging after that write up. On this video day he caved to pressure. He has since clarified. He wants no part of Biafra.
My people say a fool at forty is a fool forever. At his age, he should be know his name Nwabali and Ikwerre is not the real name of where he claimed to have hailed. The people who knew the rightful name of "Ikwerre" composed the finding fathers of Ohanaeze. "Ikwerre" are not Igbo. Until some punks give true name of "Ikwerre", they shall remain Bini.
So am I right to have declared that your not supporting Palestine should be linked to your hatred of the North and Muslims?
Who in his/her right senses will cherish the support of a hypocrite? I guess Biafra would rather cherish a support from an ant than from a deceitful ninny.
Biafranboys: Exactly you know the history, the Romans caused all this nonsense just because of their hate for Jews ans nothing else. What was the flag of Palestine or currency? Nada. Muslims don't even pray towards Jerusalem
Yes, the Romans initially and British lately. It was a British that gave the name, Palestine, to areas made up of Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Ammon, Kingdom of Judah, Kingdom of Moab, Kingdom of Eden and municipality of Philistia. It is very shameful that most educated goons fall for deceitful craps from the dirty ass Arabs.
THOSE AMERICANS JUST LOOK AT YOU AND CALL YOU DUMB AND STUPID.
YOU'RE BEGGING AMERICA TO TURN YOUR COUNTRY INTO IRAQ CHAPTER 2.
STUPID, DUMB MORO.NS WITH NO SENSE.
BY THE TIME YOUR IGBOLAND BECOMES A WASTELAND OF WARLORDS, BOMBED OUT MARKETS AND DESERTED STREETS WITH UN TRUCKS AND REFUGEE TENTS EVERYWHERE, YOU WILL GET SENSE.
BRAINLESS STUPID MORO.NS.
YOU HAVE BEEN CURSED TO BE BLIND AND STUPID.
SPIT.
Please shut it already. Iraqis or part of it did not ask for the country to be destroyed. Saddam Husain did. IPOB and its supporters never asked Nigeria to be destroyed but the self determination or homeland for those who do not wish to be integral part British contraption called Nigeria. When Republic of Igbo land or Biafra is gone, you will still happily remain in the shithole called Nigeria or something else.
Wallade: Yorubas have refused to be coned by you guys and Kanu into your Biafra agitation.
Sunday Igboho can dine with you, share your fraudulent funds with you and die with you guys. We don't care.
You are free to be Biafra country for all Yorubas care but stop dragging us into your agitation. I thought you can achieve your plans yourself; leave us out of it.
You lying and hateful people. Always generating propaganda all over the place.
You are very correct as in 1967. Since the date, what has happened with to Yoruba and con artists from northern region over One-Nigeria? I remembered the con artist used the slogan "One-Nigeria" to scatter the brains of Yoruba. Believe me you will care when three armies come for your monthly contribution. By the way, Ndigbo or even Biafra does not need the help of lily-livered punk asses who will constitute themselves into liabilities.
Funniest part of it all remains there is nothing Arab in Palestine. The word, Palestine, does not have an Arabic origin. Yet the fools shout Palestine as if it has anything to do with them.
How did Israelites acquire those lands kf they are migrants?
In the bible, it was claimed that Israelites conquered the land, what does the word conquered mean?
No, is the answer to your question. The real migrants to Palestine were Arabs. There was no leader of the so-called Palestine People that was born in British mandate for Palestine. The restate British referred as Palestine was Assyrian land under the Othman. Othman and Turkey lost land after Germany and its allies were defeated in WW1. Syria and Lebanon fell under the French Mandate.
The British mandate for Palestine was divided into 33% to Israel (Jews) and 77% to Jordan (Arabs). However, the Arabs wanted the entire Palestine to themselves. At the birth of Israel as independent state in 1948, the Arabs attacked the new state. Israel lost Judea and Samaria (West Bank) of River Jordan to a British commander who lead the Arab legionnaires. Till day, the deceitful Arabs do not refer to area on the west bank of River Jordan as Judea and Samaria or any Arabic name because of its implication.
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