The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of Sanusi Dankaka on the Kuje Correctional Centre over allegations that he threatened to launch nude movies and images of Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on Facebook.
Justice Salim Ibrahim issued the order after Dankaka was arraigned by the Department of State Services (DSS) on two counts of alleged cybercrime.
The defendant, nevertheless, pleaded not responsible to each counts.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that the cost, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/699/2026, was filed on October 22 by the DSS via its counsel, Yusuf Afegbua.
According to the prosecution, the alleged offences had been dedicated in October 2026 in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.
In the primary depend, Dankaka and different individuals stated to be at massive had been accused of making an attempt to flow into malicious content material via a Facebook account recognized as Sanusi Dankaka Yahaya.
The prosecution alleged that the defendant claimed to own nude movies and images of Governor Yusuf and threatened to make them public.
It additional alleged that the publication was false and was meant to trigger annoyance, inconvenience, insult and harm to the governor.
The DSS stated the alleged conduct contravened Section 27(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, and so forth.) Act, 2015, as amended, and was punishable underneath Section 24(1) of the identical legislation.
When the case was known as on Monday, Afegbua advised the court docket that the prosecution was able to proceed with the arraignment.
Counsel to the defendant, Kauna Penzin, additionally confirmed her readiness for the proceedings.
After the fees had been learn to him, Dankaka denied the allegations.
Afegbua subsequently requested a trial date and urged the court docket to remand the defendant to the custody of the Kuje Correctional Centre pending additional proceedings.
Justice Ibrahim granted the request and adjourned the case till December 7 for trial.
Dankaka was consequently ordered to stay in custody pending the subsequent listening to.
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