Nigeria Risks bigger war Over Northeast malnutrition crisis – Ndume

       

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Senate Leader, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, has warned that improper handling of the malnutrition crisis in the North East is capable of causing a larger war than the one being fought against the Boko Haram insurgents.

Nine Alleged Boko Haram Extremists Plotting Attacks On Abuja Arrested By The DSS.

Nigeria’s intelligence agency says it has arrested nine alleged Boko Haram extremists plotting attacks on Abuja, the capital, over the festive season.

Saturday’s statement follows a warning Friday from the U.S. Embassy that extremists may be planning attacks on hotels favored by Westerners.

The Department of State Security says one of the nine men arrested was carrying out surveillance of a “high-profile hotel.”
It says all nine were detained in the past month and had infiltrated the capital in central Nigeria from the country’s northeast where most extremist attacks occur.
Boko Haram has claimed previous suicide and car bomb attacks that have killed hundreds in Abuja. Their suicide bombings, village raids and kidnappings continue in the northeast.
Nigeria’s 6-year Islamic uprising has killed 20,000 people and spread to neighboring countries.

Boko-Haram Cameraman Arrested By The Nigerian Army.

Boko-Haram Cameraman Arrested By The Nigerian Army.The man behind the production of video footages which Boko Haram insurgents usually post on the Internet, Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq, has been arrested by soldiers of the Nigeria Army in Borno State.

Sadiq was the suspect No. 58 in the recently published photograph of ‘100 Wanted Boko Haram suspects’ that was circulated by the Department of Army Public Relations in October.
In the published photograph, believed to have been sourced from a screen grab of a video clip, Sadiq, who appeared to be in his late 40s, was seen carrying a video camera tripod.
Spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said he was arrested in Uba town of Askira Uba local area of Borno state.
Many residents of Borno state who viewed the video footage that was posted on YouTube showing the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, leading his group of insurgents to perform prayers during the last Eid Kabir celebration, confirmed that the video was taken in a community called Pumbum, which was not far away from Uba town: which made some logical sense if the Boko Haram’s video man, Sadiq, was arrested in that locality.

100 Local Hunters Had Declared Their Interest To Go To Maiduguri And Fight The Dreaded Boko Haram.

100 Local Hunters Had Declared Their Interest To Go To Maiduguri And Fight The Dreaded Boko Haram.

A team of local hunters from Kaduna state has said that they are ready to assist the military in Maiduguri to bring to an end the war against terror which has continued to claim many innocent lives in the North East.
Addressing newsmen in Kaduna yesterday, the Head of the local hunters in Kaduna, Alhaji Shehu Musa Al-Jan, disclosed that about 100 local hunters had declared their interest to go to Maiduguri and fight the dreaded Boko Haram.
According to him, the hunters were aware of the December dateline given to the military authorities by President Muhammad Buhari, saying that,’ we are ready to go and fight the insurgents to a standstill.

THE STOP OF BOKO-HARAM IS UNREALISTIC. BUHARI

 Senior military, security and intelligence figures in Nigeria on Thursday questioned President Muhammadu Buhari's December deadline for an end to the Boko Haram conflict, calling it "unrealistic". The Centre for Crisis Communication, a research and advisory body independent of government, said the deadline was "not tenable" given the continued wave of bombings in the northeast. Buhari, who came to power in May, has made crushing the six-year rebellion a priority and in August gave his military commanders until the year-end to defeat the Islamists. But the CCC executive secretary, retired Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, told reporters in Abuja there was a real concern about Boko Haram's persistent targeting of civilian "soft targets". Anas said he was not against imposing targets on the military but added: "It must also be stated that this target date might be unrealistic. "This submission is predicated on the fact that asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against Nigeria is not such that can be easily stamped out by the armed forces."