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IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, marks 54th birthday in DSS custody

THE leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, today clocked 54.

But Kanu, who is facing charges of treason, will mark his new age in the detention facility of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The separatist leader was extradited to Nigeria in June to face trial.

The scheduled trial in July suffered a setback, with the judge adjourning till October 21.

Kanu was born in Isiama Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State — within the claimed territory of the Republic of Biafra a few months after it had declared independence from Nigeria.

His father was Eze Israel Okwu Kanu (JP) and his mother, Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu.

He attended Library Avenue Primary School and went to Government College Umuahia for his secondary education. He studied at University of Nigeria, Nsukka and moved to the UK before graduating.

Kanu began his activism for the freedom of Biafra as a Radio Biafra director and anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who said while in a meeting in Kaduna on June 12, 2014, that he handed over Radio Biafra to Kanu disappointed him.

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