Nigerian police used teargas and blocked major roads in Abuja to halt protests against the ongoing detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial for terrorism charges on Monday.
In central Abuja, armed police patrolled with water cannon and armoured trucks, and fired volleys of teargas where protesters tried to gather.
In other parts of the city, police were supported by armed soldiers in a show of force.
Kanu, a British citizen, heads the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a movement pushing for the independence of southeastern Nigeria, predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group.
Kanu's supporters say his detention since 2021 is politically motivated and want him released and the seven counts of terrorism quashed.
Kanu has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry life sentences.
More than a million people perished in a three-year civil war that began in 1967, the year Kanu was born, when the southeast region attempted to secede as the Republic of Biafra.
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