However, Simon Ekpa, a Nigerian linked to the Biafran separatist movement, lives in Lahti, where the Päijät-Häme District Court will consider a request from the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation to keep the suspects in custody. Ekpa is one of the ...

Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, has been detained in Finland over alleged terrorist activitiesThe Biafran separatist was accused of using his leadership position to promote actions that have led to violence against civilians and authorities in southeastern NigeriaIt is believed that the terrorist activities are been coordinated from Finland,

A Finnish-Nigerian municipal politician and Biafran separatist leader, Simon Ekpa, been detained by the Päijät-Häme District Court on probable cause for

Ekpa lives in Lahti city, north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where he serves as a local representative for Finland's conservative National Coalition Party, according to the AFP news agency. On Thursday, Finnish detectives said he had incited "violence ...

Simon Ekpa, self acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been arrested by law enforcement in Finland. The BBC reports that Ekpa was subsequently sent to prison by the district court of Päijät-Häme for “spreading terrorist propaganda on social media”.

Simon Ekpa sits on Lahti's public transport committee as a member of the National Coalition party, and has become a figurehead for a separatist movement in Nigeria.

Simon Ekpa, the self-declared prime minister of the IPOB, is scheduled to be extradited to Nigeria to face prosecution