The secret service (SSS) arrested Abdullahi Mustapha Berende and Saheed Oluremi Adewumi, plus one other Nigerian, in February. It accused them of being members of a “high profile terrorist network” that was planning attacks in that country.
Berende is accused of travelling to Iran to help with “material assistance and terrorist training … in the use of fire arms, explosives and other related weapons.”
The charges also say he took $30,000 in funding to carry out operations. He and Adewumi were both accused of aiding an Iranian terrorist group, including by using cameras to help them.
The Iranian regime has been in the spotlight in Nigeria before. In 2010, authorities at a Lagos port found a shipment of artillery rockets, rifle rounds and other weapons from Iran. A Nigerian and an Iranian each received a five-year sentence in May for smuggling the weapons.