•Repentant Boko Haram terrorists The Borno State government has allayed the fears that many repentant terrorists reintegrated into society after the rehabilitation and deradicalisation programme will go back into terrorism. The state government noted that a key part of the programme is swearing by the Quran, a strategy considered strong enough...
•Repentant terrorists Retired military officers, human rights activists, lawyers and other concerned Nigerians have expressed outrage as they condemned the reintegration of repentant terrorists into the society by the federal government after undergoing six months of de-radicalisation and vocational training. The government announced last Thur...
Amid Nigeria’s seemingly endless war against terrorism and banditry, a chilling question refuses to fade. It echoes after every mass burial of villagers cut down in midnight raids. It lingers in the silence of deserted communities where farms lie abandoned and schools shut their gates. It trembles in the voices of parents who send their [&hell...
•A cross-section of ‘repentant’ Boko Haram ex-fighters The federal government has spent about N1.4 billion for the rehabilitation of repentant terrorists and the establishment of centres for terrorism trials in the last one year and six months. The federal government established the National Counter-Terrorism Centre following forme...

