Nigeria, Feb. 1 -- Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has vowed to challenge the Court of Appeal judgment affirming the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organisation.

Aloy Ejimakor, in a statement on Friday night, said Mr Kanu stated this when he and other members of his legal team visited the IPOB leader on Friday at the facility of the State Security Service.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the proscription of IPOB in Nigeria.

IPOB is a group leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the South-east and some parts of the South-south Nigeria.

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