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Assistant Commissioner of Police Sunday Ubua’s request to be granted to bail was rejected by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency is pursuing criminal charges against Ubua and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari for unauthorized drug sales and other offenses.

A three-member panel of the appellate court ruled on Friday that the appeal by Ubua was without merit and upheld the judge’s decision from March 28, 2022.

The March 28 ruling denied Ubua’s request for release on the grounds that the prosecution had presented the court with enough evidence to support the denial of the bail request.

In the lead judgment, Judge Stephen Adah stated that the appellant had not provided any fresh evidence to the court that would have caused it to rescind Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court of Abuja’s prior ruling on the matter.

On charges of illegal drug dealing and attempting to tamper with evidence, Ubua is on trial with Kyari and three other former members of the Nigeria Police Force’s Intelligence Response Unit, Force Investigation, and Intelligence Department.

Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, personally oversaw the most potent intercontinental ballistic missile’s recent test-firing, state media images from Friday showed. He was accompanied by his daughter.

According to the official Korean Central News Agency, the launch on Thursday—second Pyongyang’s ICBM test this year—involved a Hwasong-17 missile and was shot in retaliation to “frantic” US-South Korea joint military exercises.

Images published in the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim witnessing the Hwasong-17, called a “monster missile” by analysts, launch into the sky in black and white.

Others of the pictures showed him watching the launch with his daughter, who state media never named but who South Korean intelligence recognized as his second child Ju Ae.

Prior to this, South Korea claimed the missile was launched on a lofted trajectory, which is generally used to prevent overflying nearby nations.

Kim recently called for a “exponential” increase in the production of weapons, including tactical nukes. North Korea declared itself a “irreversible” nuclear power last year.

Kim, who oversaw the launch on Thursday, is reported to have declared that North Korea would “respond to nuclear weapons with nukes” and advocated for “irreversibly strengthening up the nuclear war deterrent”.

In addition, he emphasized the nation’s “quick response posture… to deal with any armed conflict and war,” according to KCNA.