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#Bama #Borno #Nigeria #EndBokoHaram #EndBanditry

[Bakatsine @DanKatsina50]

SAD NEWS: Last night, in Kankara LGA of Katsina State, bandits reportedly abducted several women from their community. This morning, residents heading to their farms were attacked and killed by the bandits.

The tragic incident has plunged the community into grief and renewed concerns over the worsening security situation affecting rural communities across the region.

How many more innocent lives must be lost before authorities take decisive action to protect vulnerable communities?

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Harrowing footage of israeli troops abducting Palestinian school girls in Beitunia town; they scream because they may never be released.. intact

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

The whole world is celebrating the World Cup while Israeli occupation forces are attacking Gaza..

This is for this night’s Israeli attacks in Gaza

[anasyazid @anasyazid]

Alhamdulillah. If you told the small boy attending a government primary school in Birnin Kudu that he’d graduate from the #1 university in the UK twice, he wouldn’t have believed you. Yesterday, I received my PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from @ImperialCollege. 🎓✨

[Babangida @iambabangida_]

1 of 39 residents abducted from Magami Diddi in Zamfara State has died in captivity. The victim, Baba Bako, reportedly succumbed to old age and frail condition, not execution. Yet kidnappers are now demanding N125 million and threatening to torture elderly captives if unpaid. Urgent security intervention needed.

[Babangida @iambabangida_]

Photo of 1 of the 10 victims of yesterday’s (9/06/2026) IED explosion on the Anka - Bagega road in Zamfara State.

These terrorists are a plague on our communities.

Governments at all levels must eliminate every single one of them.

[Vincent Foucher @VincentFoucher]

Not a straight line between almajirai and #BokoHaram, indeed. Basic fact: most almajirai have not joined #BokoHaram factions (otherwise the situation would be way worse), and jihadists have killed many mallamai (teachers) who resisted their influence. And yet...

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬 @ogundamisi]

The bandits and criminals in Nigeria openly displaying their faces on TikTok and other social media platforms have families, and those families are embedded within wider communities. Yet, too often, there is a reluctance among family members and close associates to come forward with information that could help identify or expose them.

This silence only enables the continuation of violence and lawlessness. It should not be difficult for Nigerian security personnel to obtain actionable intelligence leading to their identification, arrest, and prosecution. This ongoing bloodshed and suffering is intolerable and must not be allowed to continue.

[Bakatsine @DanKatsina50]

SAD UPDATE: A close associate and friend of the APC Chairman of Koko/Besse LGA, Kebbi State, who was abducted alongside his friend, has been confirmed dead while in captivity.

May Almighty Allah forgive him, have mercy upon his soul, and accept his martyrdom. Prayers are also with his friends and all remaining captives, with hopes for their safe release.

The incident show the continued security challenges facing communities in the region. As families mourn yet another tragic loss, many continue to await justice and the safe return of their loved ones.

May the deceased rest in eternal peace and may comfort find those he left behind.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Africa's top referee will not be allowed to officiate at the World Cup after he was refused entry to the USA, FIFA has confirmed 🚨

[Margaret Fleming @mgfleming12]

A Somali ref turned away. A Swiss player learning he needed further checks the day of his flight. Journalists, staffers, and federation officials denied. Reports of single-entry and one-day visas.

Inside the visa and travel issues preceding the World Cup:https://t.co/GZguo4HVvH

[SarkinFOTO @FotoNugget]

Every media outlet and blog that promoted the false demands attributed to the Oriire terrorists should be held accountable and thoroughly investigated, particularly the government official who circulated the false claim regarding a request for Sharia law.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

World Cup referee - Africa's best - is denied entry to United States and sent back after landing at Miami Airport, despite having a diplomatic passport https://t.co/2JPP5NpJpT

[Babangida @iambabangida_]

Do not forget that the Borno children are still in captivity.

[Bakatsine @DanKatsina50]

ALERT: Bandits are currently in Hayin Kwanta village in Sukuntuni ward, Kankia LGA of Katsina State. Security assistance is needed in the village and surrounding communities.

Retweet massively to pass the message to the authorities to do the needful.

[Mr. El-Bonga @el_bonga]

They’re busy using their FAAC funds to sponsor pilgrimage,cars to monarchs,flyovers, mass weddings etc. all to the tune of billions while basic elements like healthcare, primary education, portable water etc. remain totally absent. Some of them even negotiate with bandit leaders.

[Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬 @ogundamisi]

When insurgents ravaged the North, many dismissed it as someone else's problem. We watched, sighed, and moved on.

Now the same fear stalks our roads and forests.

No part of a nation suffers alone for long. A wound ignored today can become everyone's pain tomorrow.