The President of the Congolese Football Federation, Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after a court found him guilty of multiple financial crimes linked to the misuse of funds provided by FIFA during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A coalition of pro-Biafra supporters has called for a massive protest march in Aba, Abia State, demanding the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The organisers, under the banner of the Coalition of Lovers of Freedom, announced plans for what they described as a “One Million March”

A coalition of civil society organisations in Lagos State has demanded the immediate release of UK-based Nigerian blogger and activist, Maureen Omorinola Badejo, describing her ongoing detention as a case of judicial persecution aimed at silencing a critical voice.