The Nigerian government to be arrested was arrested by Ansaru Commander on Thursday

The federal government on Thursday will charge two main leaders of the Ansaru terrorist group arrested in the north at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Ansaru is a group of terror affiliated with the Al-Qaeda network.

The two commanders – Mahmud Muhamed Usman, alias Abu Bara’a/Abbas Mukhtar; and his deputy, Abubakar Abba, alias Isah Adam/Mahmud Al-Nigeri.

Abu Bara’a and Mahmud Al-Nigeri, popularly called Mallam Mamuda, will be charged before judge Emeka Nwite on the accusation of 32-calculation terrorism.

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The accusation was dated and submitted on September 4 by MB Abubakar, Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation, on behalf of the Attorney General Agung Federation and the Minister of Justice.

In one of the accusations, Abu Bara’a, who came from the Regional Government of Okene (LGA) Kogi, and Mahmud Al-Nigeri from LGA’s Daura from the state of Katsina allegedly had helped and conspiring with acts of terrorism, sometimes between 2013 and 2015.

The federal government accused that both of them were conspiring and agreed to be part of Ansaru, a terrorist organization that was prohibited in Nigeria.

The two men were arrested for a high risk, operations led by intelligence carried out by the Nigerian Security and Intelligence Office between May and July 2025.