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The State Security Service (SSS) has raised the alarm astir a planned onslaught connected immoderate borderline communities successful Ondo State by suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
In a confidential memo dated October 20, 2025, addressed to the Brigade Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army Corps of Artillery, Owena Cantonment, Akure, the information bureau disclosed that credible quality confirmed the violent group’s plans to transportation retired coordinated assaults successful Ondo and Kogi States.
The memo, signed by Hi Kana, Director of Security, Ondo State Command, identified Eriti Akoko and Oyin Akoko successful Akoko North-West Local Government Area and Owo municipality successful Owo Local Government Area arsenic the terrorists’ intended targets.
The SSS warned that the terrorists had already begun surveillance connected brushed targets successful the affected areas and called connected the subject to heighten information operations to forestall immoderate attack.
The memo reads successful part: “Intelligence has confirmed plans by members of ISWAP to transportation retired coordinated attacks connected communities successful Ondo and Kogi States soon.”
The bureau further advised that information alertness crossed the identified communities beryllium accrued instantly to forestall nonaccomplishment of beingness and property.
This improvement comes hardly 3 years aft the June 2022 onslaught connected St.
Francis Catholic Church successful Owo, wherever suspected ISWAP fighters massacred much than 40 worshippers.
Reacting to the report, Ondo State assured residents that the authorities and applicable information agencies are acting connected the accusation and taking indispensable precautions to guarantee information and security.
Speaking done the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Idowu Ajanaku, the authorities explained that the “leaked memo is portion of regular quality reports routinely shared among information agencies and the government. Such reports are a mean portion of information operations aimed astatine identifying and preventing imaginable threats.”
According to Ajanaku, “These quality reports often incorporate varying levels of menace appraisal and are utilized successful associated operations by information agencies to heighten vigilance and alteration proactive measures.”
He added, “The authorities is alert of the caller information alert memo from the State Security Service addressed to the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army successful Akure regarding a imaginable violent onslaught successful parts of the state, which was leaked to the media.”
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