A Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia, on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to return Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, to Kenya before his rendition on June 19, 2021. Delivering judgment, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, also awarded Kanu N500m in general damages. The News Agency...
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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a N100 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Federal Government over his continued detention by the Department of State Services, (DSS). In the suit filed at the Federal High Court Abuja, Kanu is seeking...
The Court of Appeal says the transfer of 21 justices to various divisions has nothing to do with the judgment of the court that discharged and quashed the terrorism charges against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Contrary to some media reports, the...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has reserved judgment in the application by the Federal Government seeking to stay the execution of the judgment that set free the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The three-member panel of justices led by Justice Haruna Tsalmani...
The National Security Council says it ordered the reopening of the Obajana Cement Company for the sake of peace and Nigeria’s economic prosperity. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the cement company was initially closed down following disagreements between the Kogi government and management of the company,...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has debunked social media report alleging that he faulted the Appeal Court judgment which acquitted the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenious People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The governor debunked the reports in a statement issued by...
The sleeping Eziama Afara-Ukwu Community in Umuahia, the home of Nnamdi Kanu, erupted in jubilation on Thursday, following the news of his acquittal by an Abuja Court of Appeal. Kanu, the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), had been standing trial for alleged treasonable felony and...
The Federal Government has said it would consider appropriate legal options concerning the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the trial of the leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, made this known in a statement issued...
The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has discharged the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja for 15 count charges bordering, including treasonable felony and terrorism, offences he allegedly committed...
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday fixed March 7, 2023 to hear an application filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kani is seeking to be joined in the appeal challenging the proscription of the group by the Federal Government. Kanu had...
A Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia, is to deliver judgment in the extraordinary rendition suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Kanu, had filed the suit before the court in March. The News Agency of...
The Court of Appeal Abuja has reserved judgment on an appeal filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to quash the terrorism and treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. The IPOB leader, who is currently facing trial before the...
The Department of State Security (DSS) has released Ukamaka Ejezie popularly called Mama Biafra, who is said to be the foster mother of the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from its detention facility. The leader of Kanu’s legal team, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, confirmed her...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has rejected Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 general elections. IPOB spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Powerful, who made their stance known in a statement issued in Wednesday, said the separatist’s group...
Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately release three of his domestic workers. Ejiofor, who made the call on Friday in Abuja at a news briefing, listed the...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the application for bail by the detained leader of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Binta Nyako, in her ruling on Tuesday, said the suit was a gross abuse of the court process and an attempt to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain where he again reiterated his resolve to respect the maximum term limit in the Nigerian Constitution. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, who confirmed this in a statement in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu against the Department of States Services (DSS). Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit and substance. The...
There are plans by the Federal Government of Nigeria to imprison the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu indefinitely without trial. Barrister Bruce Fein, the United States-based lawyer of Nnamdi Kanu, disclosed this in a letter addressed to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Fein warned the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has accused criminals of enforcing sit-at-home on days not approved by the group. According to IPOB, the criminals are the ones killing, kidnapping and hijacking cars in the Southeast. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the criminals do not deserve mercy and also do...