Nigeria, March 17 -- A State Security Service (SSS) operative on Monday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that two suspected commanders of terrorist group Ansaru confessed to receiving weapons training from foreign instructors in Libya.

The witness, who testified as the first prosecution witness in the terrorism trial of the two men, appeared under protection and was identified only by the codename "Triple A."

The defendants in the case - Mahmud Usman and Abubakar Abba - are globally wanted suspected terrorists linked to al-Qaeda.

They were captured alive by Nigerian security forces in August 2025 and subsequently charged with 32 terrorism-related offences linking them to illegal mining and terrorist attacks in Nigeria between 2013 ...