That's how Boko Haram started; first killing policemen and burning of stations, then breaking correctional facilities, today we are seeing the results.

tsdarkside:


actualy battle against boko haram is a battle for lake chad....

a arms race has begun for lake chad....
i dont even understand whats soo important about lake chad....

that place seems very important to people around that lake....
but somebody said in the past that future wars will be about water....

There is oil around the region .

I don't think that is true, I have seen pictures of this and more art works by a Chinese community to celebrate their harvest period.

kabe1:
Nigerian soldiers attacking a target.

Nigerian desert camouflage is so good, it's incredible.

Wow this looks like Call off Duty (FPS)

Well Bauchi is still cold

mrjaydee:
Contact me for the FRSC Past questions and answers, including interview tips and all you need to know about FRSC.
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I have sent to to over 200 people free of charge, with no one sending me Recharge card any amount. Some people are even reselling it to others. I'm tired of this country.. ungrateful souls every where.

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This op is very funny, d guy was shot on the head and he is walking hmm.

what most of u guys dont knw is dat wat eva party he goes to he sure will win, because his people love him.

where is bauchi state governor?

here we are celebrating a man that makes drones for the US, while the drones are been used to encircle nigeria.

watin bauchi state dey there, oh my God

Bauchi state governor no sabi anything, laying off of staffs, non-payment of salaries, if u are paid then there is always a deduction

though i dnt lyk d president, nt signing dis deal wil help protect our local industries

[color=#990000][/color]thunder fire this man, wic kind tin b dis, who cursed us abeg. thunder fire this man, wic kind tin b dis, who cursed us abeg.

femidejulius:
There's no difference between the government Reno is discrediting and the one he actively partook in. APC is PDP. PDP is APC.

If Reno has conscience, he would have also told GEJ the truth.GEJ was a failure. PMB is a failure.

we are jst blessed with bad leaders.

The ⚡ that will strike this man, eh all this while na nw ur � open, na nw ur eyes clear. PMB, Fulani herdsmen, Fulani grand patrons and patrons, those in support of the Fulani. ⚡ fire u

� y u no go fail with this English

Hehe

That's what is happening here in MAUTECH (FUTY), no hotplates and heaters

SAN FRANCISCO, May 08, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a policy review, which guarantees the right of importers to choose terminals or ports of their choice for the discharge of their cargo.

The review puts an end to Integrated Logistics Services Nigeria Limited’s (Intels) dominance of the nation’s oil and gas logistics business at the ports as the president also approved the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone Terminal in Rivers State as a multi-purpose cargo terminal, saying its non-designation as such previously did not in any way legally obstruct or compromise the operations of the free zone for all cargoes, including oil and gas.

The presidential approval, obtained by THISDAY, was contained in a letter dated May 5, 2017, which was signed by the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, to the Managing Director of Josepdam Port Services Limited (JPSL), another port terminal operator.

“Following a review of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s (FGN) policy directive over the years in respect of the concessions and applicable legal regime by the Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, touching upon reform initiatives and implementation as a veritable mechanism for the development of the maritime industry, investments made to date, general global practice in designation of terminals, right of importers to choose terminals or ports for discharge of their cargoes, streamlining of shipping and other fees, His Excellency, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has conveyed approval on 21st April, 2017 to the Honourable Minister of Transportation on the final position in the following terms,” the letter, entitled, Conveyance of Presidential Approval – Re: Report on Concessioned Terminals in the Ports, read.

“FGN remains guided by the general global practice in the designation of Terminal/Ports operations into three broad categorisation of bulk cargo, container cargo and multipurpose cargo. Accordingly, the FGN rejects the categorisation of oil and gas multi-purpose cargo terminal, as this is alien to the relevant concession agreements and inconsistent with global shipping practices.

“The non-designation of the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone as an ‘Oil and Gas Multi-purpose Cargo Terminal’ does not in any way legally obstruct or compromise the operations of the Free Zone as an Oil and Gas Free Zone, but rather, it merely indicates that all cargo including oil and gas can be discharged at the terminal.

“FGN reaffirms past presidential directives that all importers are free to choose any terminal or port for the discharge of their cargoes, subject to the presence of all requisite regulatory agencies at such ports as required by extant regulations and in line with its policy of promoting competition and value for money. Consequently, any policy that designates certain ports by cargo type is cancelled.

“The Nigerian Ports Authority and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) are to streamline the payment of shipping and other fees at various terminals in a manner that ensures such fees are based on cargo type rather than on the basis of designation of terminals, to ensure that there is no loss of revenue due to FGN based on terminals that importers choose to bring cargoes into the country.”

Intels, largely owned by an Italian, Gabriel Volpi, with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as another major stakeholder who is believed to have sold his interest to former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, has dominated the business as it was granted a concession to operate terminals at the ports to the consternation of other operators who accused it of running a monopoly with the connivance of senior government officials, particularly at the NPA.

Its most evident stranglehold was in oil and gas logistics services, which it claimed to have an almost exclusive concession over, as most cargoes in that sector were directed to its terminals for discharge by government agencies saddled with the responsibility of regulating port operations.

Intels, previously NICOTES, had used its presence of more than three decades in the industry and huge financial muscle to crowd out other players who were too weak to resist its dominance in the face of the preferential treatment it enjoyed from key government officials and regulatory agencies.

It was a matter of time before other stakeholders staged a revolt, which steadily came to fruition late last year when the new administration under the watch of Usman harkened to their cries and instituted a policy review that got the presidential nod last month.

A Coalition of stakeholders committed to restoring peace in the north east under the aegis of Concerned Statesmen and Patriots In Nigeria (COSPIN) has expressed concern over what it described as the role of France in the activities of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria.

Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, convener of the coalition, Professor Emmanuel Ome, said the concern is necessitated by the silence of French authority despite the arrest of its nationals during the raid on ground zero in Sambisa forest by the Nigerian Army.

He said France also owes Nigeria and the world an explanation regarding the sighting of its aircraft just across Nigeria’s borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger on numerous occasions by IDPs and victims of Boko Haram attacks.

According to Ome, the Nigerian government must conduct further investigations into the roles being played by France and other countries in its internal affairs, using Boko Haram as an occupation force with a view to fashioning corresponding diplomatic responses to these threats.

He expressed surprise that despite the huge presence of French troops in neighbouring countries, Boko Haram terrorists have been receiving training as well as freely moving weapons across the borders of those countries which he said are mainly Francophone countries.
He said, “The fact that Boko Haram fighters that are fleeing suddenly have access to superior firearms that are even more sophisticated than what they had before they were chased out of Sambisa Forest. Who is supplying these weapons? How are these weapons being shipped? Why are the neighbouring countries to Nigeria’s north-east, all Francophone, not been able to flag deliveries of weapons to the terrorists?

“Why has France not come out to declare its position on the several fighters of French origin that were apprehended with Boko Haram fighters in Sambisa Forest? The fact that these terrorists’ instructors were declared as French nationals should have provoked diplomatic fallout but France maintained a deafening silence in the matter.

“French President François Hollande has hosted, or caused to be hosted, several summits on Boko Haram only for things to get worse. He would have to prove that these conferences are not the cover he uses to make our security and intelligence community to share sensitive operational information which he in turn hand over to the monsters that he bred.

“The worrisome pattern that Boko Haram always kidnap experts of French origin each time it is broke and the government of their countries is always in a hurry to pay ransom in millions of dollars. This is nothing short of creating a legitimate front to pass money to Boko Haram in the public glare. Each time Boko Haram seals such transactions it is able to pay its fighters and buy new equipment.”

Ome urged the United Nations to intervene and stop what he described as undue interference and sabotaging of Nigeria whether by France or by any other foreign interest.

According to him, the damage done by the insurgency has unleashed unthinkable humanitarian crisis that is already a blot on the collective human conscience and the situation must not be made worse by this policy of foreign interference.

He said further, “we are appealing to our brothers and sisters in ECOWAS and AU to begin making modifications to their economy should the need arise to boycott French goods on account of the destabilisation plot in Africa.”

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/263957/stakeholders-worried-frances-role-fight-boko-haram-terrorism

- Anti-Trump protesters have been blasted for their hypocrisy by an American journalist

- The journalist claimed that nobody protested when Boko Haram killed thousands of people in Nigeria

- He also claimed that over a quarter of a million people died in Syria during Obama's time in office but nobody did anything about it


President Trump has caused a lot of protest following his executive order which ban some people from 7 Muslim countries from entering America
Justen Charters, a deputy editor and commentator for Independent Journal Review, has blasted those who are demonstrating across the US over the recent executive order placing a temporary ban on seven Muslim-dominated countries by President Trump.

According to the journalist, many people protesting the ban are hypocrites.
He said none of those protesting came out to protest against the rampage of Boko Haram in Nigeria and other atrocities over the world.

“When Boko Haram came through Nigeria like a battering ram and took over village after village, beheading innocents and burning and pillaging, where were you? Were you calling Congress and telling them we can't stand for this? Were you out in the streets in the thousands? I think not,” he said

His full statement as posted on his Facebook page read:

"To all the anti-Trump protesters who are trying to take the moral high ground,

"President Obama was in office when genocide was happening in Syria. Assad crossed the 'red line' on multiple occasions, and Obama continued to talk tough but did nothing.

"Over a quarter of a million people died in Syria during Obama's time in office. He didn't go after Assad. I didn't see a massive crowd of you at the White House protesting. Women, children, dying. Sarin gas attacks, war crimes. Where were you? Where were your signs?

When James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Adam Kassig and Kayla Mueller were all murdered by ISIS, where were your candlelight vigils? Where were the huge crowds for the innocents who were killed? I must have missed them.

"When Boko Haram came through Nigeria like a battering ram and took over village after village, beheading innocents and burning and pillaging, where were you? Were you calling Congress and telling them we can't stand for this? Were you out in the streets in the thousands? I think not.

"You care about Sudan? Genocide has been taking place on and off again in Sudan since 2003. Did you march against the murders? Did you scream at the top of your lungs for humanity and for Bush or Obama to do something after an estimated 300,000 died? No.

"And Yemen, since when did you care about Yemen, children having been starving in mass in Yemen for years. Their emaciated bodies, their sunken eyes. I don't recall you marching against those injustices either.

"Were you out in force when ISIS ran through Iraq and was killing people in the thousands? Beheading families, burning people alive. I don't remember an Anti-ISIS protest at the White House at the time. I don't remember thousands showing up for innocently murdered Iraqis.
"But now you're out at the White House, telling people that you care about these people. Doubtful. You're out there right now because it's become popular. You want to be part of the crowd. Too bad you stayed silent when you could have actually made a difference."

Meanwhile, Nora, an eight-year-old girl was among 30 civilians, 10 women and children reportedly killed in President Trump’s first military order.

The late girl was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American al-Qaeda leader killed in a US strike ordered by President Obama five years ago.

https://www.naij.com/1085640-no-march-white-house-boko-haram-killed-thousands-american-journalist-blasts.html

What the f*** , Jesu, our SINators again oo

Hold on please i am Looking for a Bleep to give

Let's do this

A new form of protest

By Mahmud Jega
— Jan 23, 2017

Before last month’s heroic capture of the Boko Haram stronghold at Sambisa Forest in Borno State, the Nigerian soldier had not had a good public image for 45 years. The last time soldiers were seen as heroes here was during the Nigeria Civil War, which ended in January 1970. In those days Federal soldiers had everyone’s support as they fought “To Keep Nigeria One,” which the Head of State General Yakubu Gowon said “Is A Task That Must Be Done.”

The military’s war songs, many of them composed by the late Major General Mamman Vatsa, were constantly played on the radio and all the children memorised them. There was a new song before every major operation. In addition, local poets in every community in the North composed more songs in praise of soldiers. In my hometown, there was a local poet called Dan Gwamna who composed many patriotic songs during the Civil War. He sang as he played with his achikokko, which was made from dried palm leaves. The top heroes in the songs were General Gowon, Brigadier Hassan Usman Katsina and Brigadier Mamman Shuwa. Another highly admired figure in those days was Major Titus Numan, alias Hauka da Bori, the army’s most popular recruitment officer during the Civil War.
Not long after 250,000 Federal troops returned home from the civil war, soldiers’ public image began to undergo a tectonic shift for the worse. The main problem was that soldiers in those days had no barracks and they lived in compounds within communities. That meant endless fights with neighbours over water, toilets and kitchens. Soldiers’ wives were particularly aggressive at communal wells and water taps and if anyone crossed their paths, they ran and called their husbands, who immediately drew their belts and whipped the offender mercilessly. Soldiers also had an unusual community spirit; if one of them got into a fight, other soldiers joined in the fight without asking questions.

Living with communities also made soldiers’ foibles visible for all to see. Too many non-coms drank beer with all their salary and gave little or nothing for family upkeep. In 1973, I went as a small boy to the new army barracks in Sokoto and saw two lines of soldiers and their wives collecting salary. I heard that whenever a wife reported her husband as not catering for her, the army commander in Sokoto, Brig A.A. Ahmadu, split the soldier’s salary into two and the wives lined up on payday to collect their portion.
I entered Bayero University, Kano’s School of Preliminary Studies in September 1977 and before we settled down, there was trouble. A hit and run driver knocked down a soldier in front of 5 Brigade Barracks in Kano so the soldiers blocked the highway and burnt many passing vehicles. The Speaker of the BUK Students’ Parliament, Yusuf Mamman, called a Congress meeting and we embarked on a demonstration to the Government House demanding to see the Military Governor, Col Sani Bello. Instead, the police chased us with tear gas all the way to Gidan Murtala. Stories of clashes between soldiers and civilians were common in the newspapers in those days.

Many of these problems had eased by 1979 because the Murtala/Obasanjo regime demobilised soldiers and reduced the army to about 100,000. The Gowon and Murtala/Obasanjo regimes also embarked on massive barracks construction and relocated soldiers out of communities. Problems however persisted at petrol stations, on highways, in football stadiums etc where soldiers were always aggressive towards civilians, clearly because the country was under military rule.

At the higher levels too, the military’s long involvement in governance lowered its esteem in the eyes of citizens. Stories of corruption and highhandedness were common. Draconian laws, arbitrary detentions, zigzag transition programs and at one point, state-sponsored murder and international isolation all ruined the military’s image. Coups, counter-coups and abortive coups were all very destabilising to the country. Public execution of coup plotters was very traumatic for Nigerians. Soon, soldiers’ claims that they were in power to cleanse the country and right all wrongs became the butt of jokes. On top of it were outrageous statements made by some military rulers such as “Telephones are not for the poor,” “I am leaving the treasury as I met it” and “All those who were captured will be held as prisoners of war.”

On some occasions soldiers redeemed themselves, such as in 1980 when Major Haliru Akilu led soldiers to put down the Maitatsine uprising in Kano, as well as later eruptions in Kaduna South, Bulunkutu, Yola and Gombe.
Boko Haram however proved to be the toughest nut to crack. The army’s inability to put down the insurgency over 5 years did not help its tough-guy image. Matters were worsened by stories of desertions, mutinies and courts martial, heavy handed army response when the insurgents were hiding in Maiduguri, international allegations of torture and summary executions, not to mention the corruption. Stories that emerged since 2015 about how funds meant for arms were looted, how service chiefs diverted billions of naira into their pockets all soiled the military’s image no end. Nor was it very helpful to the military’s image that the major towns occupied by Boko Haram were recovered in early 2015 only with help from South African mercenaries.

The new service chiefs appointed by President Buhari in August 2015 however turned the military’s image around. Most visible in this regard have been Army Chief Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and Air Force Chief Air Marshal Sadeeq Abubakar. Their stomping all over the North East, the new sense of urgency and direction they brought to the war, the enormous improvement in the military’s equipment, firepower and overall capabilities, the exotic names given to military operations, the string of successes recorded by various military formations culminating in the recapture of Sambisa Forest and Boko Haram’s greatly diminished fighting power all helped to turn around the image of the Nigerian soldier.
Recapture of Sambisa Forest was the single most important turn around. To think of a psychological equivalent, one must go all the way back to the fall of Umuahia during the Civil War. Now, at last, Nigerian Army Generals are walking with a new spring in their steps. I noticed some of it when my colleagues and I recently visited Army Headquarters in Abuja. Last week’s disastrous bombing of an IDP camp at Rann however took some shine out of the Generals’ new found lustre.

This article was first published in Daily Trust on Sunday of January 15, 2016 to mark Armed Forces Remembrance Day.

Abubakar Shekau: Surrender Now, Terrorism Is Over
Abiodun Israel
— Jan 24, 2017 3:32 am

I have come to identify history, as a phenomenon which replicates itself in other parts of the world. Sambisa Forest in Nigeria’s Northeast and its Camp Zero, Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) most fortified enclave in Borno state, strikes some semblance with the famed Berlin Bunker (Führerbunker) of the defeated Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler who ignited the senseless World War II. Hitler retreated into it for protection against air-raids when it became obvious his military might could not withstand the venom of Allied Forces against him.

I saw a replication of history, when the current incarnation of BHTs factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, retreated into Sambisa Forest and took refuge in its innermost sanctuary, Camp Zero in the face of ceaseless firepower from Nigerian troops. It also reminded me of the jitters that gripped Hitler in January of 1945 when his Nazi regime’s failing military campaigns lost steam and unable to withstand the Allied Forces that moved ferociously against his empire.

History tells us Hitler relocated into the underground cave of the bunker with most of his henchmen. The Berlin Bunker, a thick-walled massive structure, about 50 feet underground, beneath the chancellery and designed as a protective shield from the air-raids of Allied Forces, was a luxurious island unto itself with everything a man needed inside it. Yet, it was demystified by Allied Forces and the famed Hitler killed himself rather being captured alive, when he knew the criminality against humanity could not be sustained.

These images compellingly strike one as being replicas of Abubakar Shekau’s Camp Zero in Sambisa Forest. I can still imagine embattled terrorists murmuring in hushed, suppressed tones, phrases like, “the enemies are here! Phew! these bloody infidels. They have entered Sambisa oooh!. Let’s head to Camp Zero! Camp Zero!! Camp Zero is the only option.” I was told that was the scenario, when Nigerian troops, like Allied Forces, barricaded the dreaded Sambisa forest and militarily invaded its dark copses in search of terrorists and their leaders.

I guess, Shekau and his outlaws erroneously thought it is the same tea cup party from a previous era, so his comrades-in-evil attempted to fight back, by opening fire on the army troops. But the feeble counter-attacks soon fizzled out and faded, as soldiers mercilessly descended on terrorists. Dozens were killed in the exchange of gunfire, some captured, others escaped with gunshots wounds and have melted into various cities, communities and villages in Nigeria and neighbouring countries in the frenzy to escape.

The successful military expedition in Sambisa forest marked the end of terrorism and the defeat of Abubakar Shekau, his demonic gang of Islamic jihadists and Boko Haram insurgents. Like himself, residues of his adherents have no more shelter or a fortress that served as bulwark against soldiers and a place that afforded terrorists the luxury of retreating to hide and plotting fresh attacks on innocent Nigerians. For me, no blow to a rebellion can be as painful and fatal as this.

I restrain myself from mocking Abubakar Shekau for the pitiable mess he has found himelf in after these serial misfortunes. But that’s the difference between me and him. He can only hunger and thirst for my passion of love for humanity and sanctity of human life; while in contrast, Shekau is a soulless breed of a devil incarnate and blood spiller, whose end was foretold since July 2015.

Since President Muhammedu Buhari (PMB) ascended the throne as Nigeria’s President and re-structured/re-organized the Nigerian military, BHTs knew no peace. Precisely, the appointment of a dogged fighter, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai, as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) with a strict charge to end terrorism in Nigeria, heralded and foreclosed the era of Shekau and the end of terrorism in the country. And from thatthat point, we have only watched on TV and listened to terrorists in Nigeria recount tales of woes.

If other Nigerians are on the same plane of thought with me, I think Abubakar Shekau has become the serial symbol of the misfortunes and the crumbled Boko Haram sect. In the depth of my heart, he should surrender himself to the Nigerian Army and renounce his devilish acts.

And I am convinced on several counts to offer him this sincere, free advice. To begin, most Nigerians, like me, think, apart from the fall of Sambisa forest, his most trusted haven of bulwark against security forces, which excited him so much with the sobriquet “dreaded,” nothing in the senseless Jihadists war Shekau and followers unleashed on Nigerians is anywhere palpable to encourage them to forge on.

Factional leader Shekau, assumed leadership of the satanic jihadists group, after the demise of its founder and pioneer leader Muhammad Yusuf. But since August 2016, he has come under severe leadership tussle and revolt within. We are aware that the sect became more radical in killings and raids, under him when it was a one united bloc. I noticed that Shekau’s atrocities festered uninterrupted under a complacent and docile government of the pre-May 29, 2015 era. So, he brazenly engaged in massive gruesome acts of bloodbath and arson through detonated bombs. He aggressively recruited young boys and girls in the Northeast, most of whom were brainwashed through charms to accept conscription as agents of death. He openly, through his videos, professed affinity and sponsorship from Iran’s Islamic State (IS) terror linchpins and swore allegiance to it in March 2015. To me, he declared himself, an enemy of Nigeria and passed a death sentence on himself.

But a shocked Shekau woke up to the unpleasant news in August of the same year that his former Public Relations Officer (PRO) Abu Musab al-Barnawi and son of the founder of Boko Haram sect, has been announced as his replacement to head the West African Province of Boko Haram. The news posted on IS Al-Naba online weekly magazine confirmed it.

Al Barnawi immediately took control and asserted the powers of his leadership. Among other things, he pulled off a large chunk of BHTs adherents from the Shekau’s faction.
I know Al Barnawi was divinely touched to realize his former boss Shekau mindlessly and repeatedly violated core Islamic principles and creeds in persecuting the Jihad war. Almighty God intervening on our behalf, one would say.

Soon, Shekau emerged on the scene to re-claim his leadership of the Boko Haram sect, declaring himself as still the authentic leader. He branded Al Barnawi as a coup plotter against him, whose group prevented him from communicating with IS leader, Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Oh! This house has fallen.

“I was asked to send my ideology in writing to the caliph but it was manipulated by some people in order to achieve their own selfish interests,” Shekau licked his wounds in lamentation.

I appreciate the Nigeria Army today because I know Shekau and the vestiges of his criminal gangs have no prospects of continuing with their heinous crimes against humanity anymore. Most Boko Haram terrorists or subordinate commanders to Shekau have either been sniffed out of life through battle fields combats or have surrendered and denounced the war. I understand it as an empty house for Shekau.
The few remnants of Boko Haram foot soldiers have gone into hiding and the vigilance and alertness of Nigerian soldiers and the public is rewardingly netting most of them into detention. Shekau himself narrowly escaped capture in Sambisa Forest, as recently revealed by the COAS, Gen. Buratai. The searchlight of Nigerian troops and security surveillance teams is consistently beaming on them in the hideouts.

Joyfully for Nigerians, the end has finally come for Shekau and his followers and terrorists. With no secured fortress to take protective shield; the nightmare of scattered remnants of followers daily arrested; Shekau himself on security surveillance and discarded by IS, the only option left for him, in my estimation, is to bargain for a peaceful surrender.

I have no doubt that Nigerians of all religions and ethno-political mix have come to perceive the ideologies espoused by Shekau’s Boko Haram as inimical to their religious beliefs and a threat to the existence of humanity not just in Nigeria, but the whole world. So, it may interest Shekau to know that he is being haunted by both known and unknown foes and faces world-wide.
No matter how long he hides from forests to caves and countries to countries, it’s rather a prolongation of doomsday because he will eventually be caught. But giving up the fight and surrendering to the Nigerian Army now might invoke some sympathetic considerations for him. It is one of the most formidable options at his disposal. But it is my candid advice that, like Adolf Hitler, if this option does not appease Shekau, he can also commit suicide like Hitler, because no wise rebel leader continues with an apparently failed mission.



–Abiodun wrote from Ibadan.

A bill aimed at criminalising terrorism financing in the country has passed through second reading in the House of Representatives

- The importance of the proposed law cannot be over-emphasised

- The need for such a bill became imperative considering the destruction and damage terrorism has done to Nigeria

A report by New Telegraph indicates that a bill aimed at criminalising terrorism financing in the country has passed through second reading in the House of Representatives.
According to the report, the bill was scaled through the second stage just before the lower house proceeded on its end of year holiday.

The bill seeks to criminalise international terrorism, funding of terrorism and seizure of terrorists cash and property.

The need for such a bill became imperative considering the destruction and damage terrorism has done to Nigeria in the last decade.
The bill is co-sponsored by Honourable Mohammed Monguno (APC, Borno) and Honourable Ahmed Babba Kaita (APC, Katsina)

It is titled: “A bill for an act to make provisions for offences relating to terrorism, prohibit the financing of terrorism and consolidate all acts relating to terrorism, and a bill for an act to amend the terrorism act of 2011 for the purpose of applying stringent prison terms for offences of terrorism, and remove the ambiguities in the act and for related matters.”

The bill prohibits the manufacturing, possession, acquisition, transportation, supply or use of weapons, explosives or nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, as well as research into, and development of biological and chemical weapons without lawful authority.

It also prohibits dealings with charities linked to terrorist groups, request from foreign states and to foreign states on extradition of persons involved in terrorist activities.

Leading debate on the motion, Hon. Monguno expressed optimism that the bill, when passed into law will checkmate terrorism and afford Nigeria to join the comity of Nations in the fight against terrorism.

His words: “The bill will encourage investment and deter any person whether within or outside, who intends to carry out any terrorist activity in Nigeria.”

The bill has since been referred to the House Committee on National Security and Intelligence for further legislative action.

Accordingly, the green chamber has put in place mechanism that would fast track the passage of the proposed law.

https://www.naij.com/1081190-house-reps-initiate-bill-curb-terrorism-funding.html

I never knew we had paramedics in Nigeria,
tnx for this enlightenment

Truly the heart of men are desperately wicked, RIP

That's after the Fulanis have razed down villages and taken many lives, hmm There ris God oo