ICC Note: If Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated Boko Haram didn’t represent a large enough threat to the Church in Nigeria, enter ISIS proper. State security officials are reporting the arrest of individuals tied to various ISIS cells in northern Nigeria. ISIS and Boko Haram have proven themselves perhaps the largest persecutors of Christians in the world in the past year, subjecting believers to systematic murder, rape, kidnapping and brutal atrocities in their aim to establish a global Islamic caliphate.

2/10/16 Nigeria (AllAfrica) – The State Security Service on Tuesday announced the arrest of one Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa alleged to a recruiter for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES, the SSS through a statement by one of its officials, Tony Okpuiyo, said Mr. Yunusa was arrested in Kano on January 17 after he “completed arrangements to embark on a journey to join an ISIS terrorist training camp in Libya, with other Nigerians whom he recruited for the ISIS.”

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