Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Justice James Omotosho delivered this ruling on Thursday, November 20, 2025 during the trial which was live streamed and monitored by NaijaEyes.
He was subsequently charged with seven counts bordering on terrorism.
The judgement was delivered in Kanu’s absence after the IPOB leader insisted that the judgement would not be delivered in the terrorism charge the Federal Government entered against him.
“His intention was quite clear, as he believed in violence. These threats of violence were nothing but terrorist acts,” Omotosho said.
Additionally, the judge claimed that Kanu’s sit-at-home order in South-Eastern states amounted to terrorism, emphasising that the order infringed upon the freedom of movement of South-Easterners.
Justice Omotosho maintained that the IPOB leader lacked the constitutional power to order people to sit at home.
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Based on the evidence shown to the court, Justice Omotosho claims that Kanu used his broadcasts to carry out preparatory terrorism by ordering the execution of military and police officers.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was initially detained in 2015, but following a military raid on his residence, he fled the nation in 2017 while out on bail. In 2019, his bail was subsequently revoked.
He was caught again in Kenya in 2021 and returned to Nigeria, but Kenya refuted his lawyers’ claims that he had been abused prior to his transfer.
In 2021, he entered a not guilty plea to seven accusations, including treason, terrorism, and disseminating misleading information about former President Muhammadu Buhari.
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