FBI asks US court to keep records on Tinubu drug trafficking probe secret

The FBI has asked a US court to keep records related to allegations linking President Bola Tinubu to a drug-trafficking investigation secret. Learn more ab

The agency wants to submit the explanation ex parte and in camera, meaning the material would be presented directly to the judge without being made available as part of the public court record.

The teachers were recently arrested and remanded in judicial custody for allegedly functioning as financial intermediaries for inter-State drug traffickers. Their role was uncovered following the arrest of Safwan, the first accused in the case from Vadakara.

The president’s legal team, in a notice of rejoinder filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, sought to align his response schedule with the defendants'.