{"id":177277,"date":"2025-09-02T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:10:17","slug":"igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa","title":{"rendered":"Igbokwe Hails Judgment Against Simon Ekpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lauded the Finland court judgment that jailed self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.<\/p>\n<p>A District Court in Finland on Monday sentenced Ekpa to six years in prison over terrorism-related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The development has generated reactions, with several stakeholders hailing the judgment and alleging that Ekpa was responsible for the unending unrest in the South East.<\/p>\n<p>Igbokwe, on Monday, took to his official Facebook page to react to the court judgment.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, the APC chieftain asserted that the \u201cmost interesting part of the judgment is Simon Ekpa will be deported after serving six years in a Finnish prison to face terrorism charges in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igbokwe vowed that the \u201cpains of what we lost in the South East in 10 years will go round,\u201d stressing that the \u201cfindings and those involved will shock the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy own prayer is to see face to face and know the people that invaded the CITY OF DAVID Nnewi on October 3, 2021, and set it on fire all in the name of the non-existing Biafraud nonsense,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lauded the Finland court judgment that jailed self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa. A District Court in Finland on Monday sentenced Ekpa to six years in prison over terrorism-related crimes. The development has generated reactions, with several stakeholders hailing the judgment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[5581,254,5186],"class_list":["post-177277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-igbokwe","tag-nigeria","tag-simon-ekpa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Igbokwe Hails Judgment Against Simon Ekpa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lauded the Finland court judgment that jailed self-s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Igbokwe Hails Judgment Against Simon Ekpa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lauded the Finland court judgment that jailed self-s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T11:09:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T12:10:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756802586.362357.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Igbokwe Hails Judgment Against Simon Ekpa\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-02T11:09:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-02T12:10:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756802586.362357.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Igbokwe\",\"Nigeria\",\"Simon Ekpa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/igbokwe-hails-judgment-against-simon-ekpa\",\"name\":\"Igbokwe Hails Judgment Against Simon Ekpa - 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