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Leader of militant group faces more charges

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    Nigerian authorities are cracking down harder on the leader of a local militant group who already faces charges linked to ethnic clashes in Lagos last month, claiming more than 100 lives.

    Frederick Fasheun, leader of the southern Yoruba Oodua People’s Congress, was charged on Wednesday over unrest that had occurred days earlier in the Western city of Ilorin in which at least six people died, AFP reported on Thursday. He was charged with criminal conspiracy, disturbing the public peace, inciting disturbance and possession of dangerous weapons.

    Fasheun was also charged in October with arson, illegal possession of arms and arson in connection with the disturbances in Lagos. Northerners from the Hausa ethnic group were targeted. The Ilorin unrest erupted over the appointment of a traditional ruler.

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