{"id":14456,"date":"2023-07-25T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:10:23","slug":"court-grants-suspended-cbn-gov-emefiele-n20m-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14456","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Suspended CBN Gov Emefiele N20m Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, was on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of N20 million with one surety in like sum by the Federal High Court in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was granted bail after <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/emefiele-pleads-not-guilty-to-illegal-possession-of-firearms-charge\/#:~:text=The%20suspended%20Governor%20of%20the,Federal%20High%20Court%20in%20Lagos.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleading not guilty<\/a> to the two counts bordering on the alleged illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Emefiele is facing two counts of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition preferred against him by the Federal Ministry of Justice before the vacation judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ministry of justice is prosecuting him on charges of possessing a single-barrelled shotgun (JOJEFF MAGNUM 8371) without a licence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He is also <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/why-emefiele-is-facing-trial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of illegally being in possession of 23 rounds of live ammunition (cartridges) without a licence<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The defendant committed the offences on June 15, 2023, at No. 3b Iru Close, Ikoyi area of Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, was on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of N20 million with one surety in like sum by the Federal High Court in Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3129,2926],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abuja-high-court","tag-godwin-emefiele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456"}],"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=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}