Appeal Court challenges High Court\u2019s jurisdiction, discharges Nnamdi Kanu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSupreme Court Judge Lawal Garba ruled that Kanu’s seven-count terrorism trial at a lower federal court should continue.<\/p>\n
Kanu had denied the charges of terrorism and knowingly broadcasting falsehoods, which are linked to social media posts he issued between 2018 and last year.<\/p>\n
Kanu’s IPOB campaigns for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria where the majority belong to the Igbo ethnic group. Nigerian authorities have labelled IPOB as a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n
An attempt by the southeastern region to secede as the Republic of Biafra in 1967 – the year that Kanu was born – triggered a three-year civil war that killed more than 1 million people.<\/p>\n
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