The army discovers a new terrorist group in the northeast

Nigeria’s military has uncovered a new terrorist group, Jama’atu Nus’ratul-Islami Wal-Muslimina, which is believed to be operating in the northeast of the country. The Nigerian government has pledged to fight it with ‘advanced technologies’.

The army said in a statement that it had also identified the leader of this new group as Aboul Fadl Iyad Gali, adding that the existence of this group “bodes of grave danger to the national security of Nigeria”.

The army also said its troops also killed an Islamic State West African media official, Sale Ahmad, also known as Baban Hassan, in a joint operation with the Nigerian Air Force.

According to the army, ISWAP is a faction of Boko Haram, directly affiliated with the Islamic State, which has recently attacked soldiers and civilians.

The statement read in part: “The new leader of the Jama’atu Nus’ratul-Islami Wal Muslimina, Abdul-Fadl Lyad Gali, has been identified. It is a new terrorist group to which Ansaru is affiliated. Along the same lines, identifying the leader of the group would allow the military to effectively target the group using advanced technologies in its arsenal. This is that the existence of a group portends a grave danger to the national security of Nigeria.

Available reports reveal that a certain Sale Ahmad Sale, head of the Al-Barnawi media group, a faction of Boko Haram, was killed in a joint operation by the army and air force. The killing of the media manager is indicative of the army’s efforts to eliminate key members of the sect. Interestingly, the sect is directly affiliated with the Islamic State and has already carried out several attacks against troops and civilians”.

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