Nigeria probing Biafra activist for 'terrorism': lawyer
Abuja: An activist campaigning for a separate state of Biafra in southeast Nigeria is being investigated for "terrorism and terrorism financing", his lawyer said on Monday. Nnamdi Kanu, whose arrest last month has sparked a wave of protests, is already charged with criminal conspiracy and intimidation as well as membership of an illegal organisation. Kanu is the director of Radio Biafra, which the government has accused of being "seditious" and of broadcasting "hate speech", and a founder of the banned Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) group. He was brought to a magistrates court in the capital on Monday following a ruling last week when Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), failed to produce him. But proceedings were adjourned until December 1 after the prosecution asked for the case to be tried in a higher court. Kanu's lawyer, Vincent Egechukwu, told reporters the DSS had secretly obtained an order at ...