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CHIKA OTUCHIKERE, Leadership A Nigerian Islamic scholar has told how an insurgent group based in Iran contracted him to spy on and assassinate prominent Nigerians including former military president General Ibrahim Babangida and former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki … read more »
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Tagged Ibrahim Babangida, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Kwara State, Lagos, List of Sultans of Sokoto, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, State Security Service
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Associated Press Nigeria’s secret police said Wednesday they broke up a terrorist group backed by “Iranian handlers” who wanted to assassinate a former military ruler and gather intelligence about locations frequented by Americans and Israelis. The State Security Service, responsible … read more »
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Tagged Culture of Israel, Ibrahim Babangida, IndepthAfrica, Iran, List of Sultans of Sokoto, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, nigerian newspapers, Peace Corps, Shia Islam, State Security Service
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18 year old Ibrahim Mohammed Alilullah of Ilobu village in Ilobu LGA of Osun state and 50 year old yam hawker from Jalingo in Taraba state, Mohammed Ibrahim Idris, were on Friday paraded by the Department of State Security Service, … read more »
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Tagged Abuja Nigeria, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, bokoharam, Catholic Church, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, Jaji, Jaji Kaduna State, Jalingo, Kaduna, Nigeria State Security Service, State Security Service, Suicide attack, Taraba State, Yobe State
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By EMMANUEL UDOM Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS and under-cover police officers have been placed on red alert at airports in major states and cities across Nigeria in the in the build-up to the Christmas and new year … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, bokoharam, Frederick Fasehun, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Oodua Peoples Congress, Port Harcourt, State Security Service
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Former Governor of Oyo State and leader of Action Congress, Oyo State Chapter Alhaji Lamidi Onaolapo Adesina took the final bow Sunday morning in Lagos. His death was confirmed by Dr. Tobi Bamgboye of the St. Nicholas Hospital on Lagos … read more »
THE used to be as free as the bird of the air. Not for her a well dressed policewoman with a pistol strapped onto her waist and madam’s handbag in her hand. Times have changed for the Coordinating Minister of … read more »
The Senator representing Borno Central Senatorial Zone, Ahmed Zanna on Wednesday filed a N5 billion suit against the Minister of Defence, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Spokesman of the military Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col. Sagir … read more »
strategypage A major reason for the support Islamic terror group Boko Haram receives in the north is the widespread belief that the Moslem north is not getting its fair share of the oil income. This has always been a contentious … read more »
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Tagged bokoharam, Christian, Gulf of Guinea, IndepthAfrica, MAIDUGURI, Moslem, Nigeria, State Security Service, Yobe State
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LAGOS—Personnel records of former and current members of Nigeria’s top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, were posted on the Internet in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, Associated Press, Bank account, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Lagos, Nigeria, State Security Service
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Ali Ihade, gateman to Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s slain aide, Olaitan Oyerinde, is a boastful young man. He boasts before his friends and associates as a lucky gateman to a man of affluence and power. One of his townsmen, Mohammed Ibrahim … read more »
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SUSPECTED terrorists yesterday scaled up their attacks in Borno, Kaduna and Sokoto states. Five people, including a suicide bomber who carried out the first attack in Sokoto since the insurgency in the North began in 2009, died in the explosion. … read more »
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As Police investigations into the $620, 000 bribe money allegedly collected by the Chairman of House of Representative probe committee on oil Subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan continues, Vanguard can report authoritatively that Police authorities have tagged Hon. Lawan as the … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Bribery, Farouk Lawan, Femi Otedola, House of Representative, IndepthAfrica, Special Task Force, State Security Service, Subsidy, United States House of Representatives
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Abuja – Nigeria is opening a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security official has told The Associated Press. While the facility … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Amnesty International, Associated Press, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Nigeria, Nigerian Television Authority, State Security Service
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ABUJA—The State Security Service, SSS, yesterday, narrated how an alleged link-man between the Boko Haram Islamic sect and the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Mallam Mohammed Ashafa, was apprehended by the Pakistani government through the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, and handed over … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Africa news, African news, AlQaeda, bokoharam, IndepthAfrica, National Intelligence Agency, Nigeria, Pakistan, State Security Service, West Africa
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Boko Haram men went on the rampage again yesterday in Borno, Kano and Kaduna states. They killed an operative of the State Security Service (SSS) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. In Kano, suspected members of the sect killed their … read more »
Abuja – The Briton and Italian kidnapped in Nigeria were abducted by a splinter cell of a radical Islamist sect and executed before a failed commando rescue operation, the nation’s secret police said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s secretive State Security Service … read more »
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Tagged africa african news, Al-Qaeda, Birnin Kebbi, Boko Haram, indepthafrica africa news, McManus, Nigeria, Sokoto, State Security Service, Zaria
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Nothing in Nigeria is what it seems. Beneath a confusing, disorderly surface lie networks of association and obligation of which outsiders, and sometimes insiders, are unaware. Money is chopped (stolen), people paid off, budgets looted and shared. Power, political and … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Africa news, African, African news, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Richard Dowden, State Security Service
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I hope this reputable newspaper would publish my story on how the state security service {SSS} arrested me, mistook me as a member of the dreaded BOKO HARAM. I am a corp member Batch A with state code:11A/0559 serving in Taraba … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Africa news, African news, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kabiru Sokoto, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Security guard, State Security Service
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ABUJA, Nigeria — The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect’s Christmas Day church bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before finally being apprehended Friday, authorities said. The arrest of Kabiru Sokoto … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Boko Haram, Christmas, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Nigeria, Sokoto, State Security Service
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Lagos, Nigeria – The death toll in Friday evening’s coordinated bomb and gun attacks on many targets in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano has risen to 215, according to the private Leadership newspaper. The paper, which is one of the … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Friday, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Kano, Kano State, Lagos, Nigeria, State Security Service
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Summary: On December 25, 2011, well-coordinated bomb explosions occurred in three Nigerian cities. Boko Haram claimed responsibility. On December 31, the President of Nigeria responded by declaring state of emergency in some places. On January 1, 2012, Nigerian Government announced … read more »
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Tagged Boko Haram, Christmas, Goodluck Jonathan, Government, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Niger State, Nigeria, state of emergency, State Security Service
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November 23, 2011 by benim
A Nigerian senator was charged in court on Tuesday alongside a suspected member of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, fanning suspicions the group has strong political links. Senator Ali Ndume pleaded not guilty to charges of passing classified information to … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Borno State, breaking news, Democratic Party, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, State Security Service, West Africa
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November 22, 2011 by benim
Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa’s most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday. Boko Haram, whose … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Al-Qaeda, Al-Zawahiri, Boko Haram, Borno State, breaking news, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, State Security Service, West Africa
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October 25, 2011 by benim
Maiduguri – A Nigerian Islamist sect said it killed a state television cameraman because it had evidence that he was an informant for the security services, and the group warned it would kill anyone else who “steps on our toes”. … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, Nigerian Television Authority, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, State Security Service, West Africa
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Nigeria’s government says Islamic militants in northern states are linked to al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in the Sahel and in Somalia. Definitively proving that link has brought more international attention to Nigerian terrorism, but may be overshadowing its domestic causes. Nigeria’s State … read more »
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Tagged al-Qaida, Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, Monguno, Nigeria, Sahel, State Security Service, United States
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September 18, 2011 by benim
LAGOS — Nigerian’s security service on Sunday offered a 25 million naira (160,000 dollars/116,000 euros) reward for information on the “mastermind” of the August 26 bombing of UN building in Abuja that killed 23 people. “A reward of 25 million … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, State Security Service, United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, West Africa
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September 1, 2011 by benim
Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 — including a man who officials now say helped organize last week’s deadly car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the nation’s capital, a high-ranking official … read more »
September 1, 2011 by benim
Days before a car bombing at a UN headquarters in Nigeria that killed 23 people, the country’s secret police arrested two men suspected of organizing the attack, authorities said yesterday, raising questions about why it was not averted. The State … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Somalia, Southern Africa, State Security Service, United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, West Africa
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Lagos – Nigeria’s secret police say that two men have been arrested in connection with a car bombing at the United Nations’ headquarters in the oil-rich nation that killed 23 people. The State Security Service issued a statement on Wednesday … read more »
Nigeria’s secret police said Monday it is holding over 100 leaders and members of a northern-based “dissident” group it did not name. Parts of northern Nigeria have in recent months been hit by frequent attacks staged by a radical Islamist … read more »
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