Rich kids from Nigeria are being recruited into ISIS - FG

The Federal government has warned that young people from Nigeria are being radicalised and recruited into terrorist group - ISIS.


Mike Omeri, DG, National Information Center, Abuja, while speaking at a joint media briefing which held at the centre on Thursday, said the youths being specifically targeted are those from wealthy backgrounds.


He said intelligence report indicates that children of the rich and affluent studying abroad are being recruited into ISIS via social media and other sources.

"At this point, we wish to alert the nation that intelligence report indicates the continuedradicalization 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 stated.