{"id":214604,"date":"2025-11-23T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-south-east-residents-ipob-react-to-nnamdi-kanus-life-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:03:55","slug":"nigeria-south-east-residents-ipob-react-to-nnamdi-kanus-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-south-east-residents-ipob-react-to-nnamdi-kanus-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: South-East Residents, Ipob React to Nnamdi Kanu&#8217;s Life Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mr Kanu, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism at the Federal High Court in Abuja, had been facing trial since 2015 when he was first arrested by Nigeria&#8217;s authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Residents of South-east have expressed outrage over the conviction and sentencing of the leader of the outlawed<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_People_of_Biafra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous People of Biafra<\/a><\/strong> (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment for terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday convicted Mr Kanu on all seven counts preferred against him by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210480.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, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism at the Federal High Court in Abuja, had been facing trial since 2015 when he was first arrested by Nigeria&#8217;s authorities. Residents of South-east have expressed outrage over the conviction and sentencing of the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214605,"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":[258,256,6788,9344,17437,6448,257,4687,393,14253,12884,4288,254,14446],"class_list":["post-214604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-imprisonment","tag-ipob","tag-kanus","tag-life","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-react","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southeast"],"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\/214604","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=214604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}