The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has intensified efforts with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to curb revenue leakages and enhance remittances in its operations across the nation. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, Comptroller-General of Customs, announced on Monday in Abuja during a training program focused on AI-powered revenue generation, remittances, and reconciliation for the Service. He explained that integrating AI is part of wider reforms designed to enhance transparency, accountability, and efficiency in managing revenue. AI tools can analyze patterns, such as inconsistencies in cargo weight, to detect discrepancies in declarations, helping to identify under-declarations and reduce revenue loss.

By Louis Achi

At the risk of sounding jaded, intelligence, intel, typically refers to secret, security, or strategic data gathered about an enemy or a situation. It often implies actionable knowledge used for decision-making in security, business, or competitive contexts. This is the focus of this analysis. In the aftermath of the recent attack by terrorists on the Nigerian Army Brigade Headquarters in Benisheikh, Borno State governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, made a startling but sad revelation that the Nigerian Army received intelligence two days before the attack. According to the governor, the intelligence included movement and routes used by the terrorists, and that the insurgents were headed towards the military barracks. The governor expressed regret that the Army failed to act.

According to the Nigerian Army, soldiers achieved significant operational successes in the recent 24 hours, including stopping terrorist attacks, intercepting suspicious logistics supplies, and rescuing abducted victims in several locations.

In the past seven years, the Nigerian military has been accused of accidentally bombing about 409 unarmed civilians instead of targeting terrorists and bandits in their operations in the northern part of the country. Although the military authority has denied some of the claims, insisting their target was terrorists in the operations, reports indicate that several unsuspecting civilians have lost their lives in accidental airstrikes.

Fresh concerns have emerged suggesting that Nigerian authorities received advance intelligence regarding a potential insurgent movement towards Benisheikh in Borno State, prompting worry about how early warnings are processed and acted upon within the current counter-insurgency framework under Operation Hadin Kai.

 The Defence Headquarters confirmed on Thursday that terrorists and military personnel alike suffered casualties when insurgents launched a coordinated attack on the 29th Task Force Brigade Headquarters in Benisheikh, Borno State. The military, however, did not confirm or debunk reports that the commander of the 29 Brigade, Brig. Gen. Oseni Braimah, was among those killed in the incident alongside his soldiers.