{"id":76658,"date":"2025-10-14T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76658"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:50:12","slug":"students-plan-nationwide-protest-to-demand-nnamdi-kanus-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/14\/students-plan-nationwide-protest-to-demand-nnamdi-kanus-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Plan Nationwide Protest to Demand Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has announced plans to stage a nationwide protest on October 20, demanding the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, NANS said the peaceful protest, themed \u201cFree Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,\u201d would hold across all states to highlight what it described as judicial injustice and the government\u2019s disregard for court rulings granting Kanu bail.<\/p>\n<p>The students urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene and ensure Kanu\u2019s immediate release, calling on youths and civil society groups to join the movement for justice and respect for the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>Some Southeast stakeholders have also expressed support for the protest, citing frustration over Kanu\u2019s prolonged detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has announced plans to stage a nationwide protest on October 20, demanding the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement, NANS said the peaceful protest, themed \u201cFree Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,\u201d would hold across all states to highlight what it described as judicial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76658","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76660,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76658\/revisions\/76660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}