In a statement on Friday, Tochukwu Ikenga, the command’s spokesman, confirmed their arrests and detention.
Amnesty International called the ban “an appalling reminder that artists are at the risk of being silenced. Nothing can justify suffocating creative freedom.”
“The rule of law won today. Time to bring him home,” said Andrew Rossman, one of Mr Garcia’s lawyers.
The Nigerian Red Cross Society has distributed dignity kits to 110 women of reproductive age and girls with disabilities in Nasarawa.
The Catholic clerics said “the experience of the Nigerian Christians today can be summed up as that of a Church under Islamist extermination”.
The chief judge of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, has announced that the 2025 Easter break will start on April 21.
The Congress of African Journalists has called for the immediate release of its members detained in Burkina Faso and forcibly conscripted into the armed forces.
“Today’s ruling affirms the fundamental right of the press and public to speak freely without government retaliation,” Lauren Easton, a spokesman for AP, said.
Governor Abba Yusuf has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to strengthening the administration of criminal justice in Kano.
He confirmed that crcCARE will collaborate with HYPREP and CEER in areas including site assessment, characterisation, remediation, and capacity building.
