The Borno state director of the State Security Service told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that they had arrested the man who uses the nom de guerre Abul Qaqa in Maiduguri. Ahmed Abdullahi said they found him by tracking his mobile phone signal.
Abdullahi says the man was a Nigerian citizen, from the Igala tribe of Kogi state
The man has served as a go-between for journalists and the sect known as Boko Haram.
His arrest comes as violence by the group continues unstopped in Nigeria. At least 185 people died in a coordinated attack Jan. 20 by the sect in the northern city of Kano.
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