LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A group seeking a separate homeland for the ethnic Igbo people of Nigeria’s southeast demanded ‘justice and fair hearing’ on Wednesday after their leader Nnamdi Kanu was detained. The head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face trial, the authorities announced Tuesday. The…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facts have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the arrest and repatriation of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who was produced before an Abuja High Court yesterday, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, and was ordered to be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered that the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, be remanded at a Department of State Service facility, pending the determination of his trial. Justice Binta Nyako gave the order after counsel for the Attorney General of the Federation, Shuaibu Labaran,…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has been arrested and “brought back” to the country to face trial, the justice minister said Tuesday. Kanu’s outlawed movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which agitates for a separate state for ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria, is accused of fomenting violence, something which it…