“Security operatives made a major bust at Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina. Seven suspected commanders of Boko Haram and ISWAP were picked up right after flying in from Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The Federal Government says this is one of the biggest wins yet for Nigeria’s new digital ID system. Interior Minister, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, broke the news on Friday. It was hours after President Bola Tinubu signed the NIMC Bill, 2026 into law. He said the arrests prove that the administration’s ID and border security reforms are working. According to him, the men were flagged on arrival by Nigeria’s integrated identity verification system and were immediately handed over to the DSS.
Tunji-Ojo linked the success to linking the NIMC database with the Nigeria Immigration Service and global security networks like INTERPOL.” Remember the report that a northern governor allegedly sponsored bandits to Hajj, I’ve begin to imagine if that’s a smart strategy. “This is wisdom.