By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA— The Federal Government has arraigned five persons accused of involvement in the beheading of two teachers who were abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State.
Among those docked before a vacation judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja were two alleged commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group, Abubakar Abba Mahmuda Abu Bara’a and Abubakar Abbas, aka Mallam Mahmuda Al-Nigeri.
Though the duo were captured by the Department of State Services (DSS) in August 2025, the security agency described the three other defendants as foot soldiers who were complicit in the Oriire school attack.
Justice Salim Ibrahim fixed September 24 for the commencement of trial of the defendants, whom he remanded in the custody of the DSS.
