Nigeria: Military, NFIU choking terrorists’ funding channels — Defence Minister

Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), has said the Nigerian military, in collaboration with intelligence and security agencies, has significantly disrupted the financial networks sustaining Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Musa said the sustained action had weakened the ability of major terrorist groups to launch the large-scale attacks that previously characterised the insurgency, forcing them to increasingly resort to abductions, kidnappings…