 The National Security Advisor, NSA retired Major General Babagana Mongono, has raised the alarm that terrorist organizations like the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa province Iswap were recruiting and radicalizing vulnerable Nigerian youth through social media. Mongono raised the alarm at the ongoing Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counterterrorism Agencies of Member States, convened by the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York. He declared that the intention of the terrorist groups was to portray the federal government as incapable of protecting the population.