Finnish-Nigerian separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, along with four other individuals, has been arrested in Finland on allegations of terror-related crimes. Ekpa, who is also known as the “Prime Minister” of the Biafra Republic Government In-Exile, was remanded by the district court of Päijät-Häme on suspicion of public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent.
The ECOWAS Court has objects Nigeria’s preliminary doubt to the court’s jurisdiction to determine a human rights violation case involving a Nigerian man on death row for 30 years. Vincent Ogueri is a 72-year-old inmate in a Nigerian maximum security prison remanded for killing a police constable in 1990 and also killing a former member of the State Executive Council and the Orlu senatorial candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Ogbonnaya Uche alias OGB. Delivering the ruling on Thursday in Abuja, Justice Edward Asante dismissed all the preliminary objections raised by Nigeria challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the case involving Ogueri.
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the emergence of a new terrorist group known as ‘Lukarawas’ in the North-western part of Nigeria, which was disclosed to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out the suit against persons charged over the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest. The Federal Government (FG) on Tuesday through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, took over the case file and notified the Federal High Court in Abuja of its decision to discontinue the case against the protesters.
The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) has arrested sixteen suspects for vandalising street lights and other infrastructure across the nation Capital. AMMC Coordinator, Chief Felix Obuah, confirmed the arrest while briefing reporters on the development during the parade of some of the suspects. Obuah revealed that on Thursday alone, five suspects were arrested with two others.
Ganiyat Popoola, a registrar in the department of ophthalmology at the National Eye Centre in Kaduna, has been released by her abductors. She was abducted alongside her husband and nephew on December 27, 2023 at the senior staff quarters of the eye centre.
