The National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has disclosed that Nigerian security agencies are working with major social media companies to identify and remove accounts used by terrorists and criminal groups. The Director-General of the NCTC, Major-General Adamu Laka, made this known at the Centre’s 2025 end-of-year press briefing in Abuja.
Laka said ransom payments remain a major source of terror financing, with Point of Sale (PoS) operators increasingly exploited to move funds. “You see a transfer made by terrorists, and when you investigate the account, it belongs to a PoS operator. The kidnappers give out the PoS operator’s number, the money is transferred, and they go to collect it,” he said.
He noted that security agencies have intensified efforts to track ransom payments, make arrests and disrupt financing networks, though operational details remain classified. Laka added that platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and X are being monitored, saying, “We engage them and explain the implications of certain posts on national security, and we take them down.”