Alleged coup plot: Nigerian Govt to arraign Timipre Sylva’s younger brother, others

Paganengigha Anagha, the younger member of erstwhile Minister of Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, linked with alleged 2025 coup crippled against President Bola Tinubu volition contiguous beryllium arraigned astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja.

Sylva’s driver, Musa Mohammed, plainclothes constabulary detail, Ayuba Reuben and escort driver, Friday Lusa Paul, are to beryllium enactment connected proceedings astatine the precocious tribunal alongside Anagha.

Details of the charges against them has not yet been made nationalist but feelers from the bureau of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF) confirmed that “the arraignment volition clasp today, April 14 astatine Court 12”.

The erstwhile Governor of Bayelsa State and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had past twelvemonth been linked to an alleged failed coup crippled designed to topple the authorities of President Tinubu successful precocious 2025.

Sylva presently successful the United Kingdom was said to beryllium a superior financier of the alleged crippled and was connected February 24 alleged to person pumped betwixt N785 cardinal to N46 cardinal traced to his slope accounts into the coup attempt.

The coup effort allegations got to the highest erstwhile successful precocious October 2025, soldiers and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) operatives reportedly raided Sylva’s resi...