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Finnish court sets May 2025 deadline for Ekpa’s terorrism trial

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Finnish court on Ekpa

Pro-Biafran separatist leader, Simon Ekpa, is set to face trial in Finland by May 2025, according to Finnish authorities. Ekpa, who was arrested last week alongside four others on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, remained in custody at the Päijät-Häme District Court. Senior Detective Superintendent Mikko Laaksonen of Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation confirmed the trial timeline via email, stating: “The date for bringing up possible charges by the prosecution was set by the district court to May 2025”. Laaksonen added that both Ekpa and Finnish authorities may request a re-evaluation…

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Despite Ekpa’s arrest in Finland, loyalist insists on ‘sit-at-home’ in S’East

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Simon Ekpa’s arrest

A loyalist of the self-confessed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has insisted that the weekly sit-at-home in the South-East would continue despite their principal’s arrest by security agents in Finland. A member of the group, Ngozi Orabueze, announced this in a statement posted on the X platform on Sunday night. Orabueze, who described herself as the Chief of Staff to Ekpa and the acting Prime Minister of the Biafran Republic Government in Exile, (BRGIE), said the sit-at-home order still exists with or without the former.…

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Finland court sends Simon Ekpa to prison for ‘inciting terror in Nigeria’

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Finland sends Simon Ekpa

…“He’ll be extradited to Nigeria” – DHQ The self acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has been arrested by law enforcement in Finland. According to reports, Ekpa was subsequently sent to prison by the district court of Päijät-Häme for “spreading terrorist propaganda on social media”. Ekpa was said to have committed the crime in 2021 in Lahti municipality. The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) also arrested four other men over alleged terrorist offences. A citizen of Finland and Nigeria, Ekpa has described himself…

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30 Days Lockdown Threat: “Simon Ekpa exploiting S’East Gov’s weakness” – Ohanaeze

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Ohanaeze on Ekpa

The factional Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Sunday, said the self-acclaimed prime minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, was exploiting the weakness of South-East governors to issue baseless threats. Isiguzoro was responding to Ekpa’s threat to lock down the South-East region as from August 28 to September 26, 2024. Recall that Ekpa had threatened a 30-day lockdown of the region over the insecurity in the region and the continued detention of the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. He claimed the decision was agreed…

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Nigeria intensifies move to extradite IBOP factional leader, Ekpa

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IPOB Ekpa

…As foreign minister meets Finland counterpart The Nigerian government has intensified a move to extradite Simon Ekpa, a factional leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from Finland. The foreign affairs minister, Yusuf Tuggar, revealed this on Tuesday after high-level discussions with his counterparts from Finland, Sweden and Iceland as well as representatives from Norway and Denmark in Abuja. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, Tuggar confirmed that Nigeria had raised concerns about a controversial Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa with Finland, addressing the issue “vociferously”. The Minister said, “That…

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Defence HQ declares Bello Turji, Simon Ekpa, 95 others ‘wanted’

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The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has declared no fewer than 97 persons wanted, following the deteriorating security situation across the country. This was made known by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, who confirmed the names and pictures  of the wanted persons on Friday. Those wanted by the military include terrorists, bandit leaders and other insurgents causing mayhem in the North and other parts of Nigeria.  ​The long list contained names of terrorists from the North-East and North-West zones, as well as insurgents in the South-East and North-Central. Also wanted…

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South-East: IPOB accuses Simon Ekpa of working for DSS

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The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has accused its factional leader, Simon Ekpa, of conspiring with the Department of State Services (DSS) to bring the group down. The group’s Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement issued yesterday and made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital. According to the statement, Ekpa was trained by the DSS and sent into IPOB as a mole in 2016. Since the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in 2021, the Finland-based separatist leader has assumed leadership of IPOB but later declared…

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Nnamdi Kanu disowns Ekpa, orders end to sit-at-home

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The leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB)Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, declared an end to all sit-at-home order in the South-East region and any other proposed means aimed by the group at forcing the Government to release him from detention. Kanu made the declaration in a handwritten letter authorised to his special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, to be read out to newsmen during a world press conference held in Enugu yesterday. The IPOB leader stated that anyone henceforth engaging in any sit-at-home in the region is no longer his disciple.…

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