{"id":184448,"date":"2024-11-12T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-after-jail-threat-sss-dg-finally-allows-lawyers-access-to-nnamdi-kanu-ejimakor\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:40:34","slug":"nigeria-after-jail-threat-sss-dg-finally-allows-lawyers-access-to-nnamdi-kanu-ejimakor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-after-jail-threat-sss-dg-finally-allows-lawyers-access-to-nnamdi-kanu-ejimakor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: After Jail Threat, SSS DG Finally Allows Lawyers Access to Nnamdi Kanu &#8211; Ejimakor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Recently, the Federal High Court in Abuja summoned the SSS director-general to &#8220;show cause&#8221; and defend himself over his alleged refusal to allow lawyers access to the IPOB leader or be jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The State Security Service (SSS) has finally allowed lawyers access to Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, his special counsel, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Mr Kanu, who is facing terrorism charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja, is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The IPOB leader has been in detention&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411120246.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Federal High Court in Abuja summoned the SSS director-general to &#8220;show cause&#8221; and defend himself over his alleged refusal to allow lawyers access to the IPOB leader or be jailed. The State Security Service (SSS) has finally allowed lawyers access to Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, his special counsel, said on Monday. Mr Kanu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[6450,258,256,49956,8415,7354,11813,8569,257,4687,393,14253,254,11036,6791],"class_list":["post-184448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ejimakor","tag-finally","tag-jail","tag-kanu","tag-lawyers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sss","tag-threat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}