{"id":79171,"date":"2025-11-22T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79171"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:59:19","slug":"fg-moves-nnamdi-kanu-to-sokoto-correctional-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/22\/fg-moves-nnamdi-kanu-to-sokoto-correctional-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Moves Nnamdi Kanu to Sokoto Correctional Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has transferred the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the Department of State Services (DSS), facility in Abuja to a correctional centre in Sokoto State.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu\u2019s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed the development on Friday in a post on X, saying his client had been moved \u201cso far away from his lawyers, family, loved ones and well-wishers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transfer comes less than 24 hours after the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted and sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment on terrorism charges.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu\u2019s legal team has condemned the ruling, calling it a miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Okpara urged supporters to remain calm and avoid violence, expressing confidence that the judgment would be overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Government has transferred the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the Department of State Services (DSS), facility in Abuja to a correctional centre in Sokoto State. Kanu\u2019s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed the development on Friday in a post on X, saying his client had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79171","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=79171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79173,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79171\/revisions\/79173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}