Nigeria, Nov. 7 -- The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has written to US President Donald Trump, demanding an investigation into the "killing of Igbos and Christians" in south-east Nigeria.

Mr Kanu, in a letter dated 6 November, claimed that the alleged Christian genocide in Nigeria is not restricted to the northern part of the country, but also in the South-east, where extremist groups allegedly operate with state support.

In the letter, which was transmitted through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, to the US Embassy in Abuja, Mr Kanu, who is in custody of the State Security Services, claimed that "Judeo-Christians are being systematically exterminated under the guise of counter-terrorism."

Mr Kanu ...