Two Boko Haram supporters bag life jail

Justice Salim Ibrahim of the Federal High Court successful Abuja has sentenced 2 men arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) to beingness imprisonment and an further 20 years each for offences linked to supporting the proscribed Boko Haram group.

The men were sentenced aft pleading blameworthy to charges of providing logistical enactment to the violent radical and concealing information.

The convicts are Abba Mustapha, from Bori colony successful Borno State, and 41-year-old Bukar Ibrahim, besides from Borno State.

Justice Ibrahim sentenced each of them to beingness imprisonment connected the archetypal number and 20 years’ imprisonment connected the 2nd count.

The sentences were handed down during the latest signifier of the Federal Government’s wide trials of suspected terrorists astatine the court.

The exercise, which began connected Thursday, is ongoing crossed respective courtrooms.

Other judges handling the cases see Justices James Omotosho, Binta Nyako, Emeka Nwite, Obiora Egwuatu, Hauwa Yilwa, Joyce Abdulmalik and Peter Lifu.

At slightest 34 defendants were listed earlier Justice Ibrahim, portion 25 were listed earlier Justice Lifu.

In July, the Federal Government announced the resumption of trials of suspects linked to coercion and different superior crimes against the state, describ...