Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to suspend judgment in his terrorism trial.

Judge James Omotosho had, last Friday, fixed 20 November for judgment after ruling that Mr Kanu's defence was foreclosed, following the separatist's insistence that he would not enter his defence under a repealed law.

Mr Kanu, in a fresh motion filed on 10 November, which he personally signed, asked Mr Omotosho to suspend the judgment, arguing that the proceedings were conducted under a repealed and non-existent law.

Among his prayers is an order stopping the delivery of judgment in the case and a declaration that failure to take judicial notice of the repe...