A Chief Justice of the Peace Court docket on Friday remanded a TikToker, Ghali Isma’il on the Keffi Correctional Centre for posting on-line movies purporting that President Bola Tinubu died from severe sickness.
Operatives of the Division of State Providers (DSS) arrested Isma’il days after he posted the movies on the TikTok deal with @bola_asiwaju.
Depend one of many two-count cost, titled: “Publication of false information with intent to trigger offence towards public peace,” learn: “That you simply, Ghali Ismail, male, 29 years of Jogana village, Gezawa LGA, Kano State, on or about July 20, 2025 and throughout the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket, did publish false info by importing a video clip in your verified Tiktok deal with (“bola-asiwaju”) whereby you falsely claimed that you just reliably confirmed from official sources that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was critically sick, having been poisoned via his meal, with intent to trigger public alarm and disturb public peace.
You thereby dedicated an offence punishable underneath Part 418 of the Penal Code Act, Cap P3, Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
The depend two of the cost reads, “That you simply, Ghali Ismail, Male, 29 years, of Jogana village, Gezawa LGA, Kano State, on or about July 20, 2025 and throughout the jurisdiction of this honorable court docket, did publish false info by importing a video clip in your verified Tiktok deal with (“bola-asiwaju”) whereby you falsely claimed that you just reliably confirmed from official sources that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was critically sick, having been poisoned via his meal, with intent to carry contempt or incite emotions of disaffection towards the particular person of the President. You thereby dedicated an offence punishable underneath Part 416 of the Penal Code Act, Cap P3, Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
After taking arguments by each counsels to the DSS and that of the defendant whose utility for bail was denied, the presiding choose, Ekpeyong Iyang, ordered Ismail to be remanded in Keffi Correctional Centre.
The matter was adjourned until August 19.
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