The Department of the State Service, DSS, has arraigned five associates of former Minister of Petroleum Chief Timipre Silva at the Federal High Court in Abuja on alleged information concealment on the whereabout of their principal implicated as alleged financier of aborted coup attempt against President Bola Tinubu. Silva, a former Governor of...
•Tinubu and armed soldiers A Federal High Court in Abuja today saw video recordings of investigators’ interview sessions with three of the six men being prosecuted over alleged plot to overthrow the President Bola Tinubu administration. In the video recordings played in the open court, two of the three defendants – retired Navy Captain Erasmus...
•Troops and General Christopher Musa The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, says he was one of the targets of a coup plot and was meant to be shot by the orchestrators. General Musa spoke on Channels Television yesterday, days after the military said some of the sixteen officers arrested last October will face trial […]
•Soldiers and Tinubu Nollywood actor and director Stanley Amandi has been taken into custody alongside several military officers accused of planning a forceful overthrow of President Bola Tinubu’s government. According to a source in the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Amandi, who is also the former chairman of the AGN, Enugu State chapter, was...
•Falana and soldiers Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has criticised the Nigerian military following its announcement that some officers would be arraigned before a military judicial panel over an alleged plot to overthrow the government. The military made the disclosure yesterday, more than three months after it announced, in October 20...
The Nigerian Armed Forces has said some officers will be arraigned before a military judicial panel to face trial over an alleged plot to overthrow the Tinubu-led federal government. In a statement by the Director, Major General, Samaila Uba, it said it is in accordance with the Armed Forces Act and other applicable service regulations. [&hell...
•Capt Ibrahim Traoré A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced. The sophisticated plan had been hatched by Lt Col Paul Henri Damiba, the military officer ousted by Traoré in September 2022, the security minister said in a late-night broadcast, reports BBC....
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has strongly condemned the attempted military takeover in the Republic of Benin. Military personnel in Benin today announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, although his entourage said he was safe and the army was regaining control, reports AFP. Reacting in a statement it rel...
•Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo Guinea-Bissau’s army announced today it had thwarted an “attempt to subvert the constitutional order”. It also said it arrested several senior military officers on the eve of the start of general election campaigning, reports AFP. “This action aimed to disrupt the electoral process,” General Mamadu...
•Tinubu and ADC logo The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned the federal government against using the recent news of an alleged coup plot as a pretext to clamp down on opposition leaders and begin extra-judicial surveillance on voices that do not agree with the government. In a statement signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the [&hel...
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