Nigerian Extremist Leader Surfaced In 2010

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
7 May 2014
Tags:
Nigeria, Governance

The leader of the Nigerian Islamic extremist group tugged on his winter hat and said with a sneer: "I will sell women." The man is Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's most feared terror group, Boko Haram. It is Shekau who threatened in a grainy video this week to sell nearly 300 teenage school girls abducted from a school in remote northeast Nigeria last month.

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