Nnamdi Kanu, director of controversial station, Radio Biafra, was reportedly arrested on Saturday by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Vanguard reports that Deputy Director of the station, Uche Mefor, alongside other members of the group, confirmed the news via a broadcast, alleging that Kanu was arrested in Lagos by the security operatives, as he flew into Nigeria from his base in the UK.
Kanu is also said to be the of Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which is described as "a separatist movement that calls for the independence of Nigeria's former Eastern Region – proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967 and reannexed to Nigeria three years later, following a civil war that claimed between one and three million lives."
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