•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu The convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal, challenging his conviction and multiple sentences imposed by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu is insisting that his trial was riddled with fundamental legal errors and [&h...
•Convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu The legal team of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has said lawyers across multiple jurisdictions are preparing a coordinated legal challenge against his conviction in order to overturn his conviction. The team described the judgment that handed Kanu life imprisonment a...
•Convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu A legal analyst and public affairs commentator, Barrister Christopher Chidera, has outlined what he described as “fatal jurisdictional errors” that render the conviction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, legally unsustainable. He argued in a legal critique on Tuesday that the Fed...
•Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy France’s top appeals court today ruled in a case of alleged illegal campaign financing against former president Nicolas Sarkozy — his last chance to escape adding a second definitive conviction to his growing rap sheet. The Court of Cassation in Paris will rule on whether a lower court was right [&helli...
•Senator Aberibe and Nnamdi Kanu Former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has bemoaned the conviction and sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) for terrorism, saying that the outcome was foretold and not surprising. Reacting through a statement by his Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom, t...
•Adegboyega Awomolo in court today The counsel to the federal government, Adegboyega Awomolo, has hailed the sentencing of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment, saying it signals that no one is above the country’s law. Awomolo spoke at the Federal High Court in Abuja today after Kanu [&hellip...
•Tinubu and Nnamdi Kanu The Tinubu-led federal government has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to impose the death penalty on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), following his conviction on seven counts of terrorism earlier today. Justice James Omotoso, while delivering the judgment, ruled that the pr...
•Convicted Simon Ekpa and incarcerated Nnamdi Kanu The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from the recent conviction of Simon Ekpa in Finland, stressing that his activities have no connection with the group. The group accused the Nigerian government of launching a smear campaign to discredit its detained leader, Mazi Nnamd...
•Jailed Professor Peter Ogban Mixed reactions have trailed judgement by the Court of Appeal in Calabar which upheld the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban for his role in manipulating the outcome of the 2019 senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West District in favour of now Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Prof. Ogban, a soil science pr...
•Onnoghen and Buhari The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, from his conviction of false assets declaration by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) under former President Muhammadu Buhari. The conviction of Onnoghen was thrown out by the appellate court followin...
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