The Attorney General’s office says the charges against them were “bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and International Criminal Court-related crimes”.

A court in Nigeria has convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences. Five judges presided over the two-day mass trial at the Federal High Court in a military prison in Kenji, Niger State. At the end of the trial, the court sentenced 125 defendants to prison for ‘terrorism’, ‘financing terrorism’, ‘providing material support’ or for offences under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

Of these, 85 were found guilty of financing terrorism and 25 were found guilty of crimes under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, including war crimes and genocide.

This trial will be the last of its kind in 2017 and 2018. At the end of the trial, 163 people were convicted, while 887 others were released.

Boko Haram has been responsible for a series of deadly attacks in the Lake Chad region for more than a decade. Attacks in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger have left thousands dead, injured or displaced. The terrorists also carry out kidnappings. One of the most notable acts of violence in Nigeria was the abduction of 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok.