The Federal government yesterday raised an alarm over the
continued radicalization and recruitment of Nigerian youths,
especially children of the rich studying abroad, into
international terrorist group, ISIS. Speaking at a joint media
briefing at the National Information Center in Abuja, the DG of
the Center, Mike Omeri said
intelligence report indicates that
children of the rich and affluent studying abroad are being
recruited into ISIS via social media and other other sources.
"At this point, we wish to alert the nation that
intelligence report indicates the continued radicalization
of our youths through the social media and a variety of
other sources. The reports also indicate these youths
who are mostly children of the rich and affluent are being
recruited into ISIS. We therefore call on parents and
guidance especially those whose wards are schooling
abroad to closely monitor the activities of these students
who may be substitutable to the antics of the promoters
of this strange catastrophic ideology" he said
