Global Terrorism Networks and Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria

In recent times, terrorist groups typically work in network forms to carry out attacks on their targets. These networks are ductile, fluid and capable of simultaneously participating in trade-based money laundering, complex investment scams, merciless violence, weaponry procurement and social services (U.S. Department of the Treasury in Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism national priorities, 2021). Globally, “today's terrorist landscape is more fluid and complex than ever” (NSCT in National strategy for counterterrorism of the United States of America. The White House, p. 1, 2018).