Tag: Nigeria
Nigeria’s suspected coup plotters deny treason charges
Six people, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, have pleaded not guilty to plotting a coup…
He wasn’t guilty but delays left this man jailed for five years without trial
Not listening to his mother cost 23-year-old Nigerian Rasheed Wasiu dearly – more than five years of his freedom for…
Arrests in Nigeria after abduction of local monarch ‘held for ransom’
Police in western Nigeria have arrested 42 suspected illegal miners as part of an investigation into the abduction of a…
Nigeria charges six people with treason over Independence Day coup plot
Six people in Nigeria, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, have been charged with treason for…
‘I was tortured and lost my hand’ – one student’s struggle to get an education in Nigeria
At the age of 13, Ovey Friday was accused of witchcraft by his stepmotherand taken to a traditional shrine in…
Nigeria drops terrorism financing charges against ex-justice minister
The Nigerian authorities have dropped charges of financing terrorism against a former justice minister and his son. Abubakar Malami, who…