{"id":73528,"date":"2025-08-19T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73528"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:15:44","slug":"boko-haram-founders-son-arrested-in-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/boko-haram-founders-son-arrested-in-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Founder\u2019s Son Arrested in Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Samuel Adeola with Agency Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The youngest son of Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, has been arrested in Chad while allegedly leading a jihadist cell, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, also known as Abdrahman Mahamat Abdoulaye, was apprehended alongside five other suspected militants.<\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian intelligence source confirmed that the group was linked to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter faction that broke away from Boko Haram over ideological disputes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team was headed by Muslim, the youngest son of the late Boko Haram founder,\u201d the source disclosed, noting that Yusuf was still an infant when his father was killed in 2009 during a military crackdown in Maiduguri that left about 800 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf is now 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Chadian police confirmed the arrest of six suspected Boko Haram members but declined to verify Yusuf\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs obtained by AFP, however, show a young, short man in a blue tracksuit, resembling Yusuf, standing among older suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf is also the younger brother of ISWAP leader Habib Yusuf, better known as Abu Mus\u2019ab Al-Barnawi.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s counter-terrorism centre and intelligence agencies have yet to comment on the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola with Agency Report The youngest son of Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, has been arrested in Chad while allegedly leading a jihadist cell, AFP reports. The suspect, identified as Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, also known as Abdrahman Mahamat Abdoulaye, was apprehended alongside five other suspected militants. A Nigerian intelligence source confirmed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73529,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73528\/revisions\/73529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}