Author: Safiu Kehinde

­Safiu Kehinde President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, to relocate to Kebbi State over the abduction of 25 schoolgirls in the state. NPO Reported that the students were on Monday abducted by the bandits in an early morning attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town. Sequel to the development, Tinubu directed Matawalle to relocate to Kebbi over the incident. As disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Startegy, Bayo Onanuga, Matawalle was asked to remain in the state to monitor…

Safiu Kehinde Videos of convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, calling for violence has resurfaced online hours after been sentenced to life imprisonment over terrorism act. NPO Reported that Kanu was on Thursday sentenced by the Abuja Federal High Court after the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, declared him guilty of all seven counts contained in the terrorism charge filed against him. The judge sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment over count one, four, five, and six of the charge. On count three, Omotosho sentenced the IPOB leader to 20 years’ imprisonment while slamming a separate…

Safiu Kehinde The Economic and Financial Crimes Comission (EFCC) has arrested a self-acclaimed Archbishop, Angel Oyeghe, over viral video of church members spraying Naira notes on a live cow. Oyeghe was arrested in Warri, Delta State, on Tuesday by the EFCC operatives attached to the commission’s Benin Zonal. As disclosed in a statement issued on the EFCC’s official X handle on Thursday, the self-acclaimed Archbishop who is the founder of Faith Healing Ministry was arrested following a viral video where several individuals under her supervision were seen spraying naira note on a live cow during a church programme. She was…

Safiu Kehinde Aloy Ejimakor, the legal counsel to convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed his displeasure with the Abuja Federal High Court ruling over the IPOB leaders’ terrorism trial. NPO Reported that the court had, in the ruling delivered on Thursday by Justice James Omotosho, sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment after declaring him guilty of all the seven counts contained in the terrorism charge filed against him. Omotosho had in his ruling also declared Kanu a terrorist after convicting the IPOB leader. Addressing newsmen after the judgement, Ejimakor faulted the ruling of the…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal Government’s prosecution counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, has hailed the Abuja Federal High Court’s judgement sentencing the convicted leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment. Awomolo who had earlier called for a death sentence on Kanu expressed satisfaction with the ruling while congratulating Nigerians. The FG’s counsel, in his address to newsmen after the ruling on Thursday, dismissed the ethnicity sentiments in the ruling. He maintained that the security of the country must not be compromised on the basis of sentiments while noting that the law is bigger than anybody in…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment. Kanu bagged the life sentence following his conviction on the seven-count terrorism charge filed against him. The Presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, delivered the sentence on Thursday after declaring Kanu guilty of all the counts contained in the charge. In his ruling, Omotosho maintained that Kanu had since the commencement of his trial in 2015 showed no remorse for his action. Rather, the IPOB leader, according to him, was overly arrogant, cocky, and full of…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal Government has charged the Abuja Federal High Court to sentence embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, following his conviction on the terrorism charge filed against him. NPO Reported that the court had earlier declared Kanu guilty of all the seven counts contained in the charge. With the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, set to pronounce his sentence on the IPOB leader, the FG’s prosecution counsel, Chief Awomolo (SAN), urged the judge to sentence him to death, which is the judgement applicable to the count one, two, four, five, and six of…

Safiu Kehinde Abia State lawmaker, Hon. Obi Aguocha, has pleaded for clemency for embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, following his conviction on the terrorism charge filed against him before the Abuja Federal High Court. NPO earlier Reported that the presiding judge over the trial, Justice James Omotosho, had found Kanu guilty of all the seven counts contained in the charge. Following the analysis of each count, Omotosho in his judgement at the court on Thursday convicted the IPOB leader of all the counts. However, the judge, having earlier ordered Kanu out of the court…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a terrorist while convicting him of all seven counts contained in the terrorism charge filed against him. Justice James Omotosho, the presiding judge, made the declaration while delivering his judgement over the trial of the embattled IPOB leader on Thursday. While presenting his final analysis of the trial, Omotosho held that Kanu is a terrorist and must be treated as one. The presiding judge ruled that the seven-count charge filed against him were successfully established by the prosecution counsel. “These…

Safiu Kehinde Embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been found guilty of inciting violent attacks which led to the murder of 175 security personnel during the 2020 #EndSARS protest. Kanu was declared guilty of the offence contained in the count four and five of the terrorism charge against him. The judgement was delivered in the IPOB leader’s ongoing trial at the Federal High Court Abuja on Wednesday. While presenting his verdict before the court, the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, recounted how Kanu had incited the violent attacks targeted at Federal Government owned properties…