Nigeria adds new charges as Biafran separatist leader Kanu's trial resumes

The lawyer of an outlawed Nigerian separatist leader, whose trial is due to resume on Tuesday, accused authorities of extending his client's time in custody by filing new charges against him. Nnamdi Kanu heads Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO, a group he founded in 2014 that is pressing for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group's homeland, which covers part of southeast Nigeria.
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