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Nnamdi Kanu Kanu in 2021 Born Nwannekaenyi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu (1967-09-25) 25 September 1967 (age 57) Isiama Afara, Biafra Citizenship British Education University of Nigeria, Nsukka Occupation Activist Notable work Radio Biafra Movement Indigenous People of Biafra Spouse Uchechi Okwu Kanu Website ipob.org Nnamdi Okwu Kanu // ⓘ (born 25 September 1967) [6] is a British [7] political activist ...
Free Nnamdi Kanu protest by the IPOB. There has been recent peaceful protest in Nigeria regarding IPOB. The organization's leader and a prominent activist named Nnamdi Kanu was arrested by Nigeria's Department of State Services on 19 October 2015. In response to his arrest there has been a group of pro-Biafran protesters who have been leading ...
In April 2023, Simon Ekpa declared himself "Prime Minister" of the Biafran Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), calling for the United Nations to acknowledge Biafra and release Nnamdi Kanu. [11] Despite this, Kanu ordered one of his followers to release a message condemning the BRGIE as "treasonous to his quest for Biafran statehood". [140]
Separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu is willing to negotiate with the Nigerian government over his continued detention and trial on terrorism charges, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Kanu, a British ...
Muhammadu Buhari GCFR ... the Indigenous People of Biafra and led by Nnamdi Kanu became high profile in 2015 for advocating independence for a separate nation of ...
Nnamdi kanu was also at national park, South Africa to mark the sit at home order, 30 May 2019. The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, a civil rights group, said its investigation revealed that security operatives shot, killed, picked corpses and buried the victims in unknown places. [15]
[22] [23] The group has also criticised President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari for never visiting the region as well as for his detention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu, [21] who said he was not affiliated with either MEND or the NDA. [24]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), founded by Nnamdi Kanu, is a currently active separatist movement. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, "[t]he federal government, recalling the civil war, is bitterly opposed to Igbo separatism, as is most of the Igbo establishment. The government has long sought to defang the IPOB and silence ...