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Lay down your weapons, embrace path of peace – Ohanaeze tells Simon Ekpa’s supporters

  News Lay down your weapons, embrace path of peace – Ohanaeze tells Simon Ekpa’s supporters Published   on   September 4, 2025 By    Saviour nicodemus john The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has asked the supporters of imprisoned.  Simon Ekpa to lay down their weapons and embrace the path of peace for the betterment. Ohanaeze also expressed profound gratitude to the Federal Government of Nigeria for its relentless efforts aimed at alleviating the pressing security challenges facing the Southeast.   Wanna just watch short videos – and get money for it? Join Cheelee right now and get your $3 bonus! Enjoy watching and get up to $10 in 3 days with no investment. Cheelee users already get about $1000 every month! Join via link, and start getting money since the first minute! My link: https://r.getlee.co/r/3141ef373d The Igbo pan group hailed the significant milestone represented by the incarceration of Simon Ekpa in Finland, wher...

Kanu’s persecution cannot be compared to Ekpa’s conviction — Lawyer

  Kanu’s persecution cannot be compared to Ekpa’s conviction — Lawyer Published   on   September 4, 2025 By   John Owen Nwachukwu   An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Barrister Christopher Chidera, has rejected the comparison between Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa. Reports emerged on Monday that a Finland court had convicted a self-acclaimed Biafran leader, Simon Ekpa. Chidera, a member of the Nnamdi Kanu global defence team, took exception to any comparison between the two agitators. This was in reaction to a recent article on social media titled “From Finland to Nigeria: What Ekpa’s Conviction Teaches Us About Kanu and the Biafran Question.”  Wanna just watch short videos – and get money for it? Join Cheelee right now and get your $3 bonus! Enjoy watching and get up to $10 in 3 days with no investment. Cheelee users already get about $1000 every month! Join via link, and start getting money since the first minute! My link: https://r.getlee.co/r/3141ef373d ...

Simon Ekpa’s conviction has exposed Nigeria, FG should release Kanu – Lawyer

  Simon Ekpa’s conviction has exposed Nigeria, FG should release Kanu – Lawyer Published   on   September 4, 2025 By   Seun Opejobi Activist lawyer, Maduabuchi Idam, has said the conviction of a self-acclaimed Biafra Prime Minister,  Simon Ekpa, by a Finnish Court within one year has exposed the Nigerian criminal justice system. Idam said the Finnish Court has exposed Nigeria’s criminal justice system to scorn, mockery and dishonor before the international community. In a terse statement he signed, the lawyer said the Nigerian government should not be influenced by the court judgment but should consider releasing Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He said: “Securing a verdict in Simon Ekpa’s case in less than a year is more of interest to me than the conviction itself. “The expeditious conclusion of Ekpa’s case by the Finnish court has exposed Nigeria’s criminal justice system to scorn, mockery and dishonor before the international com...

He’ll be deported after serving jail term – Igbokwe hails judgement against Simon Ekpa

He’ll be deported after serving jail term – Igbokwe hails judgement against Simon Ekpa.    Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lauded the Finland court judgment that jailed self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.   reports that a District Court in Finland on Monday   sentenced Ekpa to six years in prison   over terrorism-related crimes. The development has generated reactions, with several stakeholders hailing the judgment and alleging that Ekpa was responsible for the unending unrest in the South East. Igbokwe, on Monday, took to his official Facebook page to react to the court judgment. In his post, the APC chieftain asserted that the “most interesting part of the judgment is Simon Ekpa will be deported after serving six years in a Finnish prison to face terrorism charges in Nigeria.”  Wanna just watch short videos – and get money for it? Join Cheelee right now and get your $3 bonus! Enjoy watching and get up to $10 ...

Finland Court sentences Simon Ekpa to six years in prison for terrorism

  Finland Court sentences Simon Ekpa to six years in prison for terrorism   Posted by saviour Nicodemus john   A  District Court in Finland has sentenced the self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Government in Exile, Simon Ekpa, to six years in prison for terrorism-related crimes. recalls that Ekpa was arrested by Finnish authorities on 21 November 2024, following an investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) into allegations of inciting terrorism and promoting violence through social media, activity that was believed to have contributed to unrest in southeastern Nigeria. Following his arrest, Ekpa wasremanded in custody by the Päijät-Häme District Court, which determined that the charge was based on “public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent”, alleged offenses dating from August 2021 to November 2024.   During this period, the NBI also froze Ekpa’s assets, as well as those of his associates and rela...

AVID petitions Trump, seeks US sanctions on Nigerian judges over detention of IPOB leader

  The American Veterans of Igbo Descent, AVID, in collaboration with Rising Sun Charities Organization and Ambassadors for Self-Determination,  has petitioned the U.S. President Donald Trump to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on a number of Nigerian judges and former Attorney General Abubakar Malami over their alleged roles in the detention and prosecution of Biafra agitator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu In a letter addressed to the president on Friday,  a copy of which was made available to journalists in Abuja, the groups accused the Nigerian judiciary of “gross violations of human rights” and complicity in what they described as the unlawful persecution of Kanu, who has been in detention since his extraordinary rendition from Kenya in June 2021. The petition specifically listed Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, Justice Hamma Akawu Barka, Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba, former Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, and former Attorney General Malami as those wh...