FBI Asks US Court To Keep Tinubu’s Drug Probe Records Secret, Seeks Sealed Filing

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked a United States court for permission to privately submit a confidential declaration explaining why it is withholding some records related to allegations linking Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to a drug-trafficking investigation conducted in the early 1990s.
The request, filed on August 20 before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, comes as the agency faces a court-ordered deadline to justify its decision to withhold portions of documents sought under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
In the application, the FBI said it could not publicly disclose the full basis for withholding certain information an...