{"id":208425,"date":"2025-09-28T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-oppose-nnamdi-kanus-transfer-to-national-hospital-govt-tells-court\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:52:17","slug":"nigeria-why-we-oppose-nnamdi-kanus-transfer-to-national-hospital-govt-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-oppose-nnamdi-kanus-transfer-to-national-hospital-govt-tells-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why We Oppose Nnamdi Kanu&#8217;s Transfer to National Hospital, Govt Tells Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">ABUJA- The Federal Government, on Friday, gave reasons why it opposed request for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to be transferred to the National Hospital in Abuja for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The government, through its team of lawyers led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, faulted a medical report that was issued by private physicians\/consultants that Kanu engaged to assess the condition of his health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Kanu&#8217;s medical team, led by Dr. Martin Aghaji, a retired&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260324.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>ABUJA- The Federal Government, on Friday, gave reasons why it opposed request for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to be transferred to the National Hospital in Abuja for medical attention. The government, through its team of lawyers led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, faulted a medical report that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6185,4357,6362,17437,6687,257,4687,393,14253,8729,254,7036,6410],"class_list":["post-208425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-govt","tag-hospital","tag-kanus","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-oppose","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells","tag-transfer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208425","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=208425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}