Ade-yusuf

Head, Deradicalisation l Correctional Service | CVE & Counter-Terrorism Practitioner | MB:BS | Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Views personal

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Hedayah (Abu Dhabi) and the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Reintegration of Prisoners published a joint Aftercare Guide for Women impacted by Extremism in February 2025. It is the first practical, MENA-tailored aftercare manual for women VEO returnees, wives and family members. The practitioner takeaway: a one-size-fits-all aftercare model does not work for women. The manual outlines screening, family mediation, economic support and community reintegration tracks, each with female-specific protocols. Practitioners in MENA and beyond should download, translate and adapt.

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The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism has published the first multi-country empirical study of female VEOs: 283 criminal cases in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, plus 60+ practitioner interviews. The finding that should change your programme: existing rehabilitation models are designed for men and "render invisible" the structural barriers women face. Vocational tracks, stigma and religious expression are all gendered. Any programme that calls itself gender-neutral is, in fact, excluding half the cohort.

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The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism has published the first multi-country empirical study of female VEOs: 283 criminal cases in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, plus 60+ practitioner interviews. The finding that should change your programme: existing rehabilitation models are designed for men and "render invisible" the structural barriers women face. Vocational tracks, stigma and religious expression are all gendered. Any programme that calls itself gender-neutral is, in fact, excluding half the cohort.

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an evidence-based operational autopsy of how Nigeria successfully eliminated pirate boardings in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) through sensor fusion, resulting in an 80% slash in commercial shipping war-risk insurance premiums, while identifying the subsequent displacement of criminal networks into inland riverine crude bunkering.
The breakthrough stems from integrating two powerful systems: the Navy’s Falcon Eye C4i (overseen by ONSA) and NIMASA’s Deep Blue Project. Covering an 850km coastline and 200,000 km² EEZ with high-frequency radar, AIS feeds, electro-optical long-range sensors, and AI analytics, sensor-to-interception time dropped from hours to minutes.

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There is a critical structural evolution in the North-West conflict from unideological rural banditry to ideologically organized, Sahelian-linked extremist militancy. The group's deployment of PKT heavy machine guns, RPGs, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the Niger-Nigeria frontier represents an acute territorial threat to Sokoto and Kebbi states.

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🎯 The US has designated three “far-left” organisations including the UK's Palestine Action and an Italian digital collective under Executive Order 13224, its principal counter-terrorism sanctions authority.

Treasury: “We will cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.”

The designated groups deny the allegations. The real story is how far counter-terrorism tools are being stretched into the space of political activism, a debate the security world needs to have.

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NIAMEY was rocked by hours of heavy gunfire in the small hours of Saturday. Mutinous soldiers attacked the presidential palace, the state broadcaster and Air Base 101 ,national TV went off-air for over an hour.

Niger's junta now says control has been restored and, per diplomatic sources, Russian forces helped the presidential guard recapture the airbase.

In the Sahel's jihadist epicentre, every crack in the state weakens the response. This is a coup inside a coup. Watch closely.

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Gold is becoming a counter-terrorism issue in West Africa. GI-TOC says JNIM taxes mines and access routes in Mali/Burkina Faso; opaque cross-border flows in northern Ghana could expose supply chains for fuel, motorbikes and explosives. Follow commodities not only bank accounts.

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Sahel jihadism is not one war. A UN monitoring report says JNIM–ISGS rivalry resurged in 2026; ISGS claimed nearly 100 JNIM members killed in clashes in Niger and Burkina Faso between February and April. Competition may fragment groups but can also intensify violence.

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Lakurawa shows how terrorism and organised crime can merge. ISS describes parallel governance; GI-TOC reports cattle rustling, kidnapping, extortion/zakat and illicit oil trade in Nigeria’s borderlands. This is a revenue-and-control model, not just an insurgency.

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Sub-Saharan Africa is now the main theatre of jihadist violence. Yet ICCT found 25 cases involving 36 people from Europe or the US who travelled, attempted to travel, or expressed interest in African jihadist groups.

Interest exists; success remains limited.

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At least nine African countries now have armed non-state actors that have acquired and used military drones. Drones can improve surveillance and attack support, but they cannot hold territory. Counter-drone policy must be paired with ground capacity.

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For 20 years, every review of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy was adopted by consensus. On 1 July 2026, that ended: the General Assembly voted 140–3, with one abstention. Japan said its abstention was a technical error. The text passed, but the consensus signal broke.

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Operation Lake Sanity II: Squeezing the ISWAP vs Boko Haram Internecine Civil War in Lake Chad:
multinational military operations capitalized on the fratricidal civil war between ISWAP and the JAS (Boko Haram Bakura faction) across the Lake Chad islands (Tumbuns), leading to 344 terrorists neutralized, 176 surrendering, and accelerated defection pipelines under Operation Safe Corridor

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The 1980 Kano Maitatsine Siege: The Forgotten Precursor That Foreshadowed Boko Haram:
Three decades before Boko Haram or ISWAP, the Yan Tatsine sect led by Cameroonian preacher Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine seized the Yan Awaki quarter of Kano, killing over 4,177 civilians and 100 police officers before the Nigerian Army 33 Infantry Brigade under Brigadier Yohanna Yerima Kure crushed the enclave with artillery and armored vehicles.

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The Agro-Ranger Playbook: 4,000 Mediated Disputes & Satellite Early-Warning Across the Middle Belt:
an innovative, non-kinetic security success. The NSCDC Agro-Rangers' deployment of 10,000 personnel combining armed patrols with specialized dispute mediation resolved over 4,000 farmer-herder flashpoints out of court, protecting over 40% of farmlands in conflict corridors.

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Handmade and Deadly: Artisanal Gunsmithing Supplies Up to 69% of Seized Firearms in Conflict Hotspots:
this busts the conventional myth that Nigerian conflicts are fed exclusively by Sahelian imported firearms. Landmark research reveals that up to 69% of firearms seized in Plateau and 32% in Adamawa are artisanally manufactured by domestic blacksmiths producing 9mm Beretta clones and break-action shotguns at 1/4th the price of imported weapons.

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Sensor-to-Shooter Modernisation: NAF Deploys Bayraktar TB2 and T129 ATAK Helos in Precision Counter-Insurgency:
the technological leap in Nigerian Air Force counter-insurgency doctrine. The induction of Turkish Aerospace T129 ATAK attack helicopters and Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs alongside Chinese Wing Loong II systems marks a decisive shift toward high-endurance electro-optical ISR, laser-guided CIRIT munitions, and compressed kill chains.

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The ₦2.23 Trillion Ransom Cash Economy: NFIU and Lawmakers Move to Choke POS & Hawala Laundering Hubs:
Reveals the forensic economic engine sustaining Nigeria's kidnapping and banditry epidemic. Between 2021 and 2025, an estimated ₦2.23 trillion was extracted in ransoms. Groundbreaking NFIU typologies expose how syndicates exploit 1.5 million Point-of-Sale (POS) operators, sports betting wallets, and crypto P2P channels to wash illicit cash.

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Operation Jackal III: INTERPOL & EFCC Smash Transnational Black Axe Cyber-Cartel Across 21 Countries,
Exposes the militarized sophistication of Nigerian-originated cyber syndicates. Operation Jackal III netted 300+ arrests, froze 720+ bank accounts, and seized $3M in illicit cryptocurrency and luxury assets, demonstrating how neo-Black Movement/Black Axe cells operate as decentralized multinational organized crime cartels.