A new report that the ferocious terror group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is infiltrating fighters into Nigeria has for once jolted officials into some action. According to The Sun (newspaper) of London, ISIS is sneaking battle-hardened jihadists from Syria into the country to train Boko Haram extremists and send them to Britain to stage attacks. This should be another wake-up call to our security services and President Muhammadu Buhari that, contrary to their assertions of victory, terrorism is still here and poses an existential threat to us and the rest of the world.
The Sun report comes in the wake of terrorist resurgence in Nigeria’s North-East region, featuring suicide bombings of churches and mosques, attacks on villages, markets and isolated military outposts. There is an ongoing “exchange programme” between Boko Haram and the ISIS, facilitating training…
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