Nigerian Court resumed trial of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu

In a major ruling, a Federal High Court in Nigeria struck out eight out of the 15 count charges against IPOB separatist leader Nnmadi Kanu. We have a report from our correspondent in Abuja.

Also in the programme: France elects a new president on Sunday, should Africa care?, and the Sahrawi nationalist group Polisario Front has decried Spain's 'betrayal' as the European country backs Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

(Photo: Political activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu. Credit: MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)