Ilorin, Kaduna, Benin, Lagos, Katsina, Sokoto, Maukurdi, Jalingo, Abuja — Nigerians were piqued by last week's ominous signal from the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command in Africa, Major General Dagvin Anderson, who warned that Al-Qaida and ISIS are deploying several strategies to establish themselves in Nigeria's North-West.
Major General Dagvin Anderson had warned that the Islamic State in West Africa and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups were exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic and gradually taking over the West African region after losing ground in Syria, Iraq and in the Middle East.
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