The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism, especially those backing Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).
The Nigerian government also said NFIU has unmasked 424 associates/supporters of the financiers, about 123 companies and 33 bureaux de change linked with terrorism.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed disclosed this at a briefing to share information on the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.
He added that the agency has identified 26 suspected bandits/kidnappers and seven co-conspirators.
According to Mohammed, 45 of the suspects will soon face trial.
He said, “For its part, the analysis by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), in 2020-2021, revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria, 424 associates/supporters of the financiers, involvement of about 123 companies and 33 bureaux de change, in addition to identifying 26 suspected bandits/kidnappers and seven co-conspirators.
“The analysis has resulted in the arrest of 45 suspects who will soon face prosecution and seizure of assets. Also, from its analysis of tax evasion and tax avoidance linked to corruption, NFIU has identified N3,909,707,678,112.43 in VAT and N3,737,918,335,785.82 in Withholding Tax due to the Government.
“NFIU has also sent 1,165 intelligence reports on cases of corruption, money laundering and other serious offences to 27 domestic agencies for investigation, prosecution and asset recovery.
“On terrorism financing, NFIU had intelligence exchanges on Boko Haram, ISWAP, banditry, kidnapping and others with 19 countries. During the same period, 2020-2021, the organisation returned fraudulently-obtained funds totalling US$103,722,102.83, 3,000 Pound Sterling; 7,695 Singapore Dollar and 1,091 Euros to 11 countries of victims who came into the country.”
Mohammed added that the President Buhari’s Whistle-Blower policy has led to the recovery of N700 billion.
In April, 2021, SaharaReporters reported how over 400 persons were arrested by security agencies during a nationwide crackdown on some suspected collaborators/financiers of terrorists.
They were reportedly arrested in an operation being coordinated by the NFIU, Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), and in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The operation was said to have been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020.
They were reportedly being kept in military and DSS facilities in Abuja and other places.
Confirming the report a few days later, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), said the Nigerian government embarked on “a wider and far-reaching investigations” into terrorism financing after the conviction of Boko Haram financiers in the United Arab Emirates.
Some Muslim parents on Thursday stormed Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State to protest against the rejection of their wards in the school.
However, the protest which started as a peaceful one, took a violent turn when an unidentified man rushed to the school to inform other protesters of a machete cut.
This triggered an angry reaction from the protesting Muslim parents as they looked around for various weapons to defend themselves. However, police officers swiftly dispatched them.
NAN reports that the police fired warning shots into the air and also used teargas to dispatch the protesters in order to control the situation as unidentified persons from inside the Oyun Baptist High School, were seen throwing missiles at those outside the premises.
Meanwhile, several persons have sustained varying degrees of injury.
For instance, a man in his early 20s was seen being rushed to a nearby hospital for reportedly being shot at.
Normalcy was however restored by a combined team of police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The Public Relations Officer of the Kwara Police Command, Ajayi Okasanmi, said security personnel had been deployed to the scene to restore peace.
Okasanmi said normalcy has returned to the school and that security operatives would remain there until the area was safe for the residents.
The controversies surrounding the use of Hijab in schools have rocked Kwara State, particularly in schools which have identified as missionary schools.
On January 25, the government restated its policy and directed management of schools in the state to allow the use of Hijab by willing Muslims without forcing it on anyone or turning them back for using it.
Some Muslim parents and their wards were seen on some major streets of Ilorin on Wednesday protesting against the management of Oyun Baptist High School for turning back some students for wearing Hijab.
A government delegation, led by the Commissioner for Education, Hajia Sa’adatu Kawu, had twice visited the school to resolve the matter.
Another delegation led by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mohammed Saifudeen, also visited the town for the same reason on Thursday.
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Let the hijab clad girls in. Their parents are recognizing that the Christian affiliated schools are better than the Moslem affiliated ones. Wouldn't hurt for them to learn the 10 Commandments.
Shafaq News / The Iraqi army announced that 30 terrorists were killed in the last ten days, during the operations it launched following the 11-martyrs massacre that ISIS carries out earlier this month.
The Assistant Chief of Staff of the Army for Operations Affairs, Lieutenant-General Qais Khalaf Rahima, indicated that the operations are still ongoing.
The Iraqi army pledged to avenge the death of 11 soldiers who were killed in an ISIS attack in Diyala governorate, on January 21.
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[IsraelTimes] ‘Aduk’ group, masquerading as a nationalist and ultra-Orthodox news outlet, redistributed extremist and anti-Muslim material to encourage attacks on Arab Israelis, BBC says.
I seem to recall Iran did something aimed at Trump voters before the last election.
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Sounds like Facebook's usual operating methods.
[IsraelTimes] Executive committee position left vacant by former chief negotiator Erekat will likely be taken by Hussein al-Sheikh, seen as possible successor to long-ruling PA president, 86.
The Paleostine Liberation Organization is scheduled to convene in Ramallah on Sunday in a meeting some see as providing a boost to a possible successor to long-ruling Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... "There is a dead end in the political process with Israel, a difficult position vis-à-vis the Arab world — the Paleostinian leadership will meet to decide its approach in light of these circumstances," said senior Paleostinian official Tawfiq al-Tirawi, who is set to attend Sunday’s gathering.
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BLUF: The charity front of the al-Qaeda-linked Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), AKA the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, for sending lotsa money to Al Nusra.
[BenarNews] The United States announced Thursday that it was sanctioning an Indonesian charity under an executive order on terrorism financing for allegedly providing funds to Lions of Islam in Syria under the "guise of humanitarian aid."
The U.S. government took the action against World Human Care, an NGO, on the same day President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... announced that the top leader of the Islamic State
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[IsraelTimes] Officials tell WSJ Iranians have accelerated nuclear program well beyond point keeping them 12 months from a bomb, as original deal envisioned.
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I've got a great idea: why not just lift the sanctions on their nuke program? I was gonna put a /sarc tag on that, but The Junta already done the deed, so...
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[Washington Examiner] During his campaign for president, Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and promised to reverse it.
Whereas Trump embraced a policy of "maximum pressure" to compel Iran to cease terrorism, covert nuclear and ballistic missile work, and other rogue behavior, Biden and Rob Malley, his special envoy for Iran, took the opposite approach. They sought to entice Iran with incentives such as sanctions relief, unfreezing assets, and the liquidation of restricted-use escrow accounts.
The scale of the financial relief offered to Iran is now mind-boggling.
In May 2021, Malley was offering Iran relief equivalent to $7 billion, nearly equal to the budget of Iran’s entire conventional military for 2022. As Iranian negotiators stonewalled — they have not sat down with Malley or his team but instead insist on talking through intermediaries — Malley’s team upped the ante. Today, the Biden administration appears poised to provide Tehran with $12 billion, equivalent to a quarter of Iran’s total budget at the real exchange rate. This does not include, of course, the windfall Tehran seeks to gain from increased oil sales already augmented by lack of sanctions enforcement. This fund does not include off-budget spending, such as the oil revenue directly allocated to the Revolutionary Guards or the additional billions that Iran’s national oil company allocates for national stabilization and development but in actuality flows into Revolutionary Guards’ coffers.
Should Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accept Malley’s offer, the regime will receive an infusion of over $20 billion over the following year, essentially doubling the Revolutionary Guard’s budget. To put that conservative estimate in perspective, a suicide belt costs just $1,500, and the bombing of the Hebrew University cafeteria that killed five Americans cost only $50,000.
Nor does the money now offered to Iran account for the billion-dollar ransoms that the Iranians expect for hostage releases. After all, ever since Jimmy Carter’s administration acquiesced to release Iranian funds in exchange for hostages and Ronald Reagan traded arms for hostages, the Iranian regime simply seizes new hostages to use as chits in their negotiations.
And even if President Biden somehow refuses to pay ransoms, all those other countries, like France and Germany, will.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...46th president of the U.S. 
[Washington Examiner] During his campaign for president, Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and promised to reverse it.
