Notorious bandit kingpin, Dogo Gide, has emerged as a serious impediment to the expansion of the Islamic State Sahel Province, ISSP, in Nigeria’s North-West, reportedly inflicting important losses on the phobia group and forcing its fighters to retreat.
Security analyst Brant Philip disclosed this in a put up on X on Wednesday whereas analysing the actions of ISSP and its makes an attempt to determine stronger ties with armed bandit teams in the area.
Philip stated ISSP had, over the previous two years, repeatedly initiated contact with bandit teams in Sokoto, Zamfara and Niger states, searching for to steer them to give up, repent and be a part of its extremist marketing campaign.
According to him, some bandit teams in Zamfara and Sokoto accepted the group’s overtures and had been absorbed into its ranks, whereas others resisted its advances.
He disclosed that ISSP fighters had defeated a number of bandit teams in northern Zamfara, taking on their camps, weapons and automobiles.
However, Philip stated the phobia group’s expansion encountered a serious impediment round mid-2026 when it confronted Dogo Gide, a distinguished bandit warlord working in the area.
“As I have reported during the past two years, ISSP has many times initiated contact with bandit groups in Sokoto, Zamfara and Niger states, among others, in the hope to make them surrender, repent and join the Islamic State’s cause. Some in Zamfara and Sokoto answered the call and were absorbed into their ranks, and others decided to resist. Many bandits were defeated in northern Zamfara by IS, and their camps, weapons and vehicles were taken over.
“However, a couple of months in the past, round mid-2026, IS confronted their most important impediment but in their expansion. Surprisingly sufficient, it wasn’t JNIM or the military; it was Dogo Gide, a distinguished warlord who characterised himself by sustaining opportunistic ties with jihadists in some intervals and was additionally the one one in a position to kick out Sadiku’s JAS faction from its strongholds in Niger State in direction of the west,” Philip wrote.
