“He is currently in custody, and arrangements are being made to charge him to court without delay,” the police said.
They urged Mr Mbah to fulfil his promise of inaugurating the commission by the first quarter of 2025 to ensure the inclusion of PWDs in governance.
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.
