{"id":14453,"date":"2023-07-25T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14453"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:37:13","slug":"suspended-cbn-gov-emefiele-arrives-court-with-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14453","title":{"rendered":"Suspended CBN Gov., Emefiele Arrives Court With Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), arrived at the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos, around 9:18am on Tuesday, clutching the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The King James Version (KJV) of the holy book was tucked inside a red paperback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Emefiele will be arraigned before Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, over alleged \u201cillegal possession of firearms\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On June 9, President Bola Tinubu suspended Emefiele and asked him to transfer his responsibilities to Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi, deputy governor, operations directorate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The day after, the DSS announced that Emefiele was in its custody for \u201csome investigative reasons\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">See some photos as Emefiele made his way into the courtroom today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), arrived at the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos, around 9:18am on Tuesday, clutching the Bible. The King James Version (KJV) of the holy book was tucked inside a red paperback. Emefiele will be arraigned before Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, over alleged \u201cillegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}