{"id":76362,"date":"2025-10-09T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76362"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:13:46","slug":"sowore-sets-october-20-protest-for-nnamdi-kanus-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/sowore-sets-october-20-protest-for-nnamdi-kanus-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Sets October 20 Protest for Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has announced October 20 for a nationwide protest demanding the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore, in a post on his Facebook page, said the demonstration, tagged #FreeNnamdiKanuNow, will hold at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, by 7 a.m. He described it as a peaceful but resolute march to demand justice and respect for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The post has since attracted massive reactions and pledges of participation from Nigerians online.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu, who leads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been in DSS custody since 2021, despite multiple court orders for his release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Human rights activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has announced October 20 for a nationwide protest demanding the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Sowore, in a post on his Facebook page, said the demonstration, tagged #FreeNnamdiKanuNow, will hold at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, by 7 a.m. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76363,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362\/revisions\/76363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}