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Apr 18, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read
Implications Of Pantami Saga For Deradicalisation And National Security

[THREAD] Brewing political crisis and debates on Nigeria’s communications minister, @DrIsaPantami, if not managed properly, could have unintended consequences of derailing deradicalisation across the country’s northern region and the Sahel.
Apr 18, 2021 15 tweets 3 min read
Nigerian Minister Pantami Recants Old Views, Says He Is Against Extremism

After clips of his inflammatory preaching surfaced, Nigeria’s communication & digital economy Minister, @DrIsaPantami has divorced himself from his old views, saying he is a different person now.

[THREAD] Dr Isa Ali Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, has reacted to the allegations associating him with extremist views and terrorist groups saying that his old fatwas (Islamic rulings) should be read within historical context.
Apr 18, 2021 12 tweets 2 min read
‘Leave As Soon As Possible’: US, UK Raise Concerns About Post-Election Unrest In Chad

The election was held amid controversy with opposition leaders urging people not to vote, and attacks from Libya-based rebels.

[THREAD] The United States and United Kingdom governments have warned their citizens against travelling to or remaining in the Republic of Chad after a fresh wave of armed violence followed the conduct of presidential elections.

A convoy belonging to the armed rebel group, ...
Apr 18, 2021 11 tweets 2 min read
Damasak: When Going Home Becomes Unsafe For Returnee-IDPs

[THREAD] The government of Borno, Northeast Nigeria, started an IDP resettlement programme in 2020; Damasak is one the target communities. However, a few months after hundreds of households relocated to Damasak, the border community is once again unsafe.
Apr 17, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
Damasak: The Nigerian Town Caught In ISWAP’s Crosshairs

The Nigerian military deployed reinforcements after the terror group went on rampage in Damasak that dislodged thousands of locals.

[THREAD] A series of attacks launched by ISWAP, the Islamic State affiliate in West Africa, in Damasak, a town close to the shores of Lake Chad, has led to the dislodgement of some residents and disruption of badly needed humanitarian assistance.
Apr 17, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
IDP Diaries: “Rann Bombing Did Not Kill Me But This Hunger Might”

Muhammad narrowly escaped death during the Rann bombing in 2017. He sustained injuries & lost loved ones. In this diary, he talks about his move from camp to camp & how IDP aid has reduced since then.

[THREAD] There is hunger. It is not new. Things are difficult. The women now go and pick guinea corn that has sprouted from the ones destroyed by elephants. It took years before I was registered in this camp and in that time, my family and I had to farm; but elephants destroyed our crops.
Apr 17, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
Communal Clash In Chad Leaves 55 Dead, 44 Injured

A communal clash in the Chadian town of Mouraye led to the death of 55 persons and 44 others seriously injured.

[THREAD] Fifty-five persons have been reported dead and 44 others wounded following communal clashes on Tuesday, April 13, in the Chadian town of Mouraye (Salamat), situated 80 kilometres from Am-Timan.

According to eye-witness accounts, three villages were razed and materials ...
Apr 15, 2021 15 tweets 3 min read
‘I Prefer Life With My Boko Haram Husband’: A Conflicted IDP’s Experience

“I want to go back because I did not have to work for anything. Livelihood was better there.”

[THREAD] Image Aminata, 20, escaped from Boko Haram’s captivity in 2015 with seven other female abductees. At the time, she had no doubt it was the right thing to do. She was at least returning to the land of freedom and opportunities.
Jan 17, 2021 10 tweets 2 min read
Yan Sholi: Why Kano’s Young Boys Are Getting High On Glue

[THREAD] Yan Sholi: Why Kano’s Young Boys Are Getting High On Glue It was a month to Saleh Inusa’s* 14th birthday. Looking dishevelled, the primary school dropout was sniffing a bottle of glue known locally as “sholisho”.
Jan 17, 2021 10 tweets 2 min read
Insecurity: 109 Civilians Killed, 133 Kidnapped In First 2 Weeks Of 2021

[THREAD] Analysis of data from the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) shows that like many other problems, insecurity has seeped into the new year - and not so quietly too.

Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 14, a total of 362 deaths were linked to insecurity and counterinsurgency efforts
Jan 16, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Untold Stories Of Blood, Tears, Controversies Of Ilesa-Baruba Military-Civilian Clash

[THREAD] Steven Adeniyi was heading to a television viewing centre to watch an English Football Association Cup match between Liverpool and Aston Villa on Friday, Jan. 8, when he heard a deafening sound that later overtook Ilesha-Baruba community.
Dec 31, 2020 24 tweets 17 min read
Hurray! We launched in 2020. As the year draws to a close, here are 10 of our stories chosen and converted to motion graphics to celebrate our 10-month-old publication. Follow this THREAD and keep a date with us in 2021: How Boko Haram Sustains Operations Through International Trade in Smoked Fish
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Dec 16, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
Travails of Mama Boko Haram: Why She Is Held In Prison Since February

[THREAD] Seated outside the dock in a Maiduguri courtroom, her entire body veiled from head-to-toe with her typical adornment of niqab that leaves only a tiny opening for her pair of eyes glasses, Aisha Wakil, aka Mama Boko Haram (mother to Boko Haram)
Dec 15, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
Service Chiefs No Longer Needed, Says Shettima As Sultan Asks Military To Occupy Lake Chad

[THREAD] Federal lawmaker and immediate past Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs immediately as they are no longer needed in the war against the insurgency.
Dec 15, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
Nigeria’s Terror King, Shekau, Connects East, West And Centre In A Puzzling Agenda

Published on July 12, 2020

[THREAD] Scorned and underrated, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of #BokoHaram is currently pulling a massive stealth strategy in an organisational makeover destined to connect the northeast, the north-west and the north-central in a bewildering expansionist agenda.
Dec 15, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
‘No Demands Made Yet’: Boko Haram Confirms Abducting Kankara School boys

(Thread) humangle.ng/no-demands-mad… Boko Haram has confirmed that it was responsible for the abduction of over 300 students from Kankara, Katsina State, last Friday, and says it has yet to declare the conditions for their release, contrary to reports.
Dec 14, 2020 8 tweets 1 min read
Abductors Of Kankara Students Finally Communicate Demands

[THREAD] The abductors of hundreds of schoolboys in Kankara community, Katsina State, northwest Nigeria, have made first contact with a set of demands, according to the state governor, Aminu Masari.
Dec 13, 2020 11 tweets 2 min read
Nigeria Deploys Air, Ground Forces In Search Of Abducted School Boys

[THREAD] Nigerian Army has deployed ground and aerial forces in search of the secondary school boys abducted Friday night by some terrorists from their school, the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara
Dec 13, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
Defining The Massacres In North West Nigeria

[THREAD] Since 2014, several communities in some of the states in the Northwest of Nigeria have witnessed aggravated plunder and killings. Nigerians and non-Nigerians have been massacred in unrestrained orgy within these locations.
Dec 13, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
Breaking: Dozens Of Secondary School Students Kidnapped In Katsina

[THREAD] Armed men on Friday night invaded Government Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, northwest Nigeria and kidnapped dozens of students.
Dec 11, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
ICC To Investigate Boko Haram, Nigerian Military For War Crimes

[THREAD] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed plans to investigate Boko Haram factions and the military in Nigeria for war crimes and crimes against humanity.