UPDATE - #BringBackOurGirls: Police denie ball to the arrested protest leader

Efforts by lawyers to free the detained leader of the #BringBackOurGirls protest have been stalled as the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Asokoro police station where she is detained has “absconded.”

The police officer who is said to have exclusive knowledge of her offence locked her up and left the station after crowd began to gather to demand her release.

According Mrs. Nyarda’s lawyers, she is detained arbitrarily without an offence as the police has no documentation about her in the station.

“Her name is not listed in he ‘entry book’ at the station and no one else besides the DPO knows about her case,” her lawyers said. 

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Protest Leader Of #BringBackOurGirls, Naomi Mutah Nyadar arrested in Abuja - PREMIUM TIMES

The leader of the ongoing protest pressuring the Nigerian government to act and rescue over 240 schoolgirls abuducted in Chibok, Borno state has been arrested.

Naomi Mutah Nyadar was picked up from her home in the city by the police early Monday morning and is detained at Asokoro police station at the moment.

“We believe it is in connection with the protests she is leading,” her lawyer, Samuel Ogala, of the Falana and Falana Chambers told Journalists.

Mrs. Nyadar has sustained the #BringBackOurGirls protest at the Unity Fountain, less than 200 metres away from the Transcorp Hilton Hotels venue of the planed World Economic Forum, WEF, starting in less than 52 hours. The protest ground could be sighted from the left wing of the hotel’s rooms.

For stealing wine and biscuits, Man bags 10 months jail terms

An Abuja Grade 1 Area Court has sentenced aman to 10 months jail for stealing wine and biscuits. 

The Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, FCT, on Thursday sentenced one Ola Omo, of Asokoro, Abuja, to 10 months imprisonment for stealing wine and biscuits. However, Presiding Officer of the court, Mr Hassan Ishaq gave the accused an option of N18,000 fine for the offences of criminal trespass, house breaking and theft.

Plice Prosecutor, Mr Phillip Akogwu, had told the court that the accused stole the items from the shop of one Eniola Doherty and  that the accused was reported to the Asokoro police station on March 26 by Doherty, a resident of Maitama in Abuja.