Abuja on edge after alleged DSS memo warns of terror threat

Security has been heightened successful the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, pursuing the emergence of a classified papers reportedly attributed to the Department of State Services (DSS), informing of planned coordinated attacks wrong the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The document, which has circulated online, allegedly identified aggregate strategical targets, including the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, the Kuje Correctional Centre, and different delicate installations crossed Abuja.

Security agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Immigration Service and Nigerian Correctional Service, confirmed that measures person been strengthened astatine airports and custodial centres.

The alert was reportedly made aft an interior memo by the Nigeria Customs Service, which warned of plans by Islamic State West Africa Province, Boko Haram, Ansaru and JNIM to onslaught the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Kuje Custodial Centre and a subject detention installation successful Wawa, Niger State.

The papers indicated that ISWAP fighters had already infiltrated parts of the Federal Capital Territory successful mentation for coordinated attacks, with a imaginable nonsubjective of freeing detained insurgents.

Although, authorities person not officially confirmed the authenticity of the document, information deployments person since been intensified crossed the city.

Joint patrols by constabulary and subject unit person increas...