Nigeria: How Nigeria's Neighbours Are Using Crude Oil Prospecting to Fuel Another Rise of Boko Haram Terrorism in Nigeria

11 August 2017

Fresh insights have emerged on why the Boko Haram terrorists have renewed their onslaught against the Nigerian Military. Impeccable sources have revealed that crude oil refining exploration in the Lake Chad Basin might be the primary motive of the sponsors of the Boko Haram terrorists. Nigeria shares borders with francophone countries like Cameroon, Niger, and Chad. These boundaries are in the North-east where activities of the Boko Haram terrorists are carried out.

A source who pleaded anonymity admitted that the motive behind the operations of the Boko Haram terrorists is politically motivated with the aid of foreign sponsors who have their eyes on the crude oil deposit in the Lake Chad region. "Recent advances have given the militants two clusters of territory which form a strategic crescent around the Borno State capital Maiduguri, a swathe of land along the South-western shore of Lake Chad, a number of towns in Yobe and Adamawa in Nigeria and along the unmanned Cameroonian border, and Fokotol and surrounding areas in northern Cameroon," says the source.

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