Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, said relative peace has returned to the country's South-east since the arrest of a pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, in Finland.

Mr Musa, a general, spoke on Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's Politics Today.

Mr Ekpa, 40, was arrested alongside four others on 21 November 2024 on suspicion of terrorist activities.

The Finnish police said Mr Ekpa "has contributed to violence and crimes against civilians in South-eastern Nigeria."

The District Court of Paijat-Hame later ordered that the pro-Biafra agitator be imprisoned "with probable cause on suspicion of public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent."

A Nigerian-Finnish citizen,...