Independence Day Bombing: Life Sentence For Nigerian Charles Okah

A federal high court in Abuja has sentenced Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze to life imprisonment over their involvement in a bomb blast on Independence Day (October 1) in 2010. Charles Okah is the brother of oil militant Henry Okah, the suspected mastermind of the plot, who is already serving a 24-year prison sentence for terrorism in South Africa.

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