Nigeria, Nov. 7 -- After days of refusing to heed the court's advice to file his defence, separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has now complied and on Friday commenced the process of filing his defence in his terrorism trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr Kanu was filing the documents inside the courtroom, as directed by Judge James Omotosho, at the time of this report.

When his trial resumed on Friday, after it was adjourned on Wednesday, Mr Kanu told the court that he had an important court process to file, which he claimed he had not been allowed to do.

Following his complaints, the judge ordered that the court's registry be temporarily relocated to the courtroom to allow Mr Kanu to complete the filing.

The lawyer to the federal g...