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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 ...
ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday overturned a judgment by a lower court that dropped terrorism charges against separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, ruling that trial on the charges ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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Additionally, questions emerged over the South as pundits noted the possibility that Obi and Abubakar could split the PDP's former southern base; [121] there were also questions about the potential impact on southeastern turnout if separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu was released from imprisonment. [122]