FG warns landlords renting properties to terrorists; collaborators face 20-year jail term

Mijinyawa Zakari, a director in the Nigerian National Security Adviser’s Legal Office, warned in Abuja that knowingly renting property to terrorists or holding a preparatory meeting with a terrorist group is an offence under the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, 2022. He said providing support to terrorism carries a minimum 20-year prison sentence. Companies that receive terrorism-linked funds could be fined 200 million naira, their principal officers prosecuted, and the companies wound up. Zakari urged journalists and other stakeholders to study the law as the government strengthens its investigative capacity.