Another round of mass trials for alleged terrorists in Abuja was started on Monday by the Federal Government. It was reported that more than 400 of the alleged terrorists would be arraigned concurrently by various judges at the Federal High Court.
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has ordered the arrest of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, following his repeated failure to appear before the committee investigating audit queries linked to N210 trillion. The committee is probing financial issues raised in audit reports covering the period from 2017 to 2023. The queries originated from reports by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation on the expenditures of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
Following reports of deteriorating conditions and the deaths of some inmates, President Bola Tinubu has issued an urgent diplomatic request to return hundreds of Nigerians serving jail sentences in Ethiopia. A high-level Nigerian delegation is anticipated to visit Addis Ababa in order to reach a deal that will permit the inmates to be moved back to Nigeria to finish their prison sentences. Senior government officials, such as Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, comprise the delegation. The President instructed the officials to expedite the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ethiopian authorities in order to facilitate the transfer of the prisoners, according to Presidency sources acquainted with the process.
The Federal High Court in Abuja sitting on Wednesday has convicted and sentenced four to death by hanging for their roles in the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State.
Seven alleged gunmakers have been detained by the Yobe State Police Command after they discovered an illicit gun-manufacturing facility in Potiskum Local Government Area. According to the command, the suspects were taken into custody on Monday during a raid on a blacksmith shop in Tasha Adua, along Danchuwa Road in Potiskum.
The State Security Service (SSS) has refuted claims that it arrested or detained renowned writer and academic Okey Ndibe at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, describing its engagement with him as part of a routine process aimed at removing his name from a long-standing security watch list.
