{"id":212980,"date":"2025-11-09T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-stands-down-proceedings-to-allow-nnamdi-kanu-depose-to-affidavit\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:25:52","slug":"nigeria-court-stands-down-proceedings-to-allow-nnamdi-kanu-depose-to-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-stands-down-proceedings-to-allow-nnamdi-kanu-depose-to-affidavit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Stands Down Proceedings to Allow Nnamdi Kanu Depose to Affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mr Kanu alleged that officials of the State Security Service (SSS), where he is being detained, did not allow him to file the process in his defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><strong>This story was updated with more accurate details of what transpired in court, leading to a brief pause to allow Mr Kanu to make the filing he requested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Federal <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fhc.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Court<\/a><\/strong> in Abuja, on Friday, stood down proceedings to allow Nnamdi Kanu file the process and depose to an affidavit in his defence in the ongoing terrorism trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070374.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>Mr Kanu alleged that officials of the State Security Service (SSS), where he is being detained, did not allow him to file the process in his defence. This story was updated with more accurate details of what transpired in court, leading to a brief pause to allow Mr Kanu to make the filing he requested. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212981,"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":[6387,258,256,6185,52829,11813,257,4687,393,14253,13026,254,6443],"class_list":["post-212980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-affidavit","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-depose","tag-kanu","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-proceedings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands"],"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\/212980","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=212980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}