{"id":6556,"date":"2025-06-19T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2025-06-19T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:17:58","slug":"alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Kanu with lawyers<\/p>\n

By Amah<\/p>\n

Kindly Share:<\/div>\n
\nKanu in court<\/p>\n

The Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing a seven-count terrorism and treasonable felony charge, on Thursday, told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he has no case to answer.<\/p>\n

Kanu took the position shortly after the Federal Government which is prosecuting him, announced its decision to close its case.<\/p>\n

FG wrapped up its case after the fifth prosecution witness, PW-5, concluded his testimony and was discharged by the court.<\/p>\n

The witness, whose name was shielded, was simply identified as EEE before he gave his testimony behind a protective screen.<\/p>\n

Upon the conclusion of his cross-examination by a member of Kanu\u2019s legal team, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, FG\u2019s counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, informed the court that he would no longer produce any witness to testify in the matter.<\/p>\n

Awomolo, SAN, said the prosecution team was satisfied that from the avalanche of evidence tendered through the five witnesses, the government had effectively established the charge against the defendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will therefore, at this juncture, close the case of the prosecution,\u201d the senior lawyer added.<\/p>\n

Following the announcement, the head of Kanu\u2019s defence team, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, notified the court about his client’s decision to enter a no-case-submission in the matter. Vanguard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kanu with lawyers By Amah Kindly Share: Kanu in court The Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"yoast_head":"\nAlleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kanu with lawyers By Amah Kindly Share: Kanu in court The Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d\"},\"headline\":\"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nnamdi Kanu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\",\"name\":\"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/\",\"name\":\"Panorama News\",\"description\":\"We present all perspectives of news as they break.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Panorama News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/panorama-news-logo1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/panorama-news-logo1.jpg\",\"width\":1065,\"height\":456,\"caption\":\"Panorama News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86f61a39fb780839ddf23cd4f472ef9e5bf4a2b93bfff200ffeca670341bd4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86f61a39fb780839ddf23cd4f472ef9e5bf4a2b93bfff200ffeca670341bd4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News","og_description":"Kanu with lawyers By Amah Kindly Share: Kanu in court The Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,…","og_url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/","og_site_name":"Panorama News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng","article_published_time":"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d"},"headline":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court","datePublished":"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00","dateModified":"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/"},"wordCount":235,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg","keywords":["Nnamdi Kanu"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/","url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/","name":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court - Panorama News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg","datePublished":"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00","dateModified":"2025-06-19T20:17:58+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-1.jpg","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-terrorism-ive-no-case-to-answer-kanu-tells-court\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alleged Terrorism: I\u2019ve no case to answer, Kanu tells court"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#website","url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/","name":"Panorama News","description":"We present all perspectives of news as they break.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#organization","name":"Panorama News","url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/panorama-news-logo1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/panorama-news-logo1.jpg","width":1065,"height":456,"caption":"Panorama News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86f61a39fb780839ddf23cd4f472ef9e5bf4a2b93bfff200ffeca670341bd4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86f61a39fb780839ddf23cd4f472ef9e5bf4a2b93bfff200ffeca670341bd4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng"],"url":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}