“Even when Shekau was alive with all his fighters, he couldn’t do much in Banki, talk more of this small guy. Nobody should take him seriously,” he said. As of the time of filing this ...

It wasn’t just the scale of the kidnapping that fuelled the outrage: Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram’s gun-toting leader, had pledged in a video message to sell his new captives as slaves. That the social ...