{"id":8291,"date":"2025-11-20T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:53:56","slug":"breaking-nnamdi-kanu-bags-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/breaking-nnamdi-kanu-bags-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Nnamdi Kanu bags life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hq7202-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hq7202-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hq7202.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By James<br \/>\nKindly share:<\/p>\n<p>Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by an Abuja Federal High Court.<\/p>\n<p>This follows his conviction on all seven counts of terrorism filed against him by Justice James Omotosho.<\/p>\n<p>Omotosho had described Kanu as an interni terrorist and anarchy-minded whose dealings had resulted in bloodshed and destabilisation in the South-east region.<\/p>\n<p>The judge accused Kanu of purporting to be a defender of his people, but actually endangered lives and national security.<\/p>\n<p>According to the judge: \u201cThe court finds that the defendant, Nnamdi Kanu, is an international terrorist and must be treated accordingly.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He declared that the prosecution successfully proved its case against Kanu by adducing credible and sufficient evidence, adding that Kanu failed to controvert their submissions by opting not to defend himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Kindly share: Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was on Thursday sentenced to life&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1076],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mazi-nnamdi-kanu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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