Ekiti State magistrates\u2019 court have granted bail to Dele Farotimi, the human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n
The court released him on bail in the sum of N50 million, with a surety in like sum. The court noted that the surety must own landed property while the matter was adjourned to January 29, 2025.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Omoyele Sowore, wrote on his X, \u201cDele Farotimi was granted bail of N50 million naira surety in the like sum with someone with landed property. The case was adjourned to 29 January 2025.”<\/em><\/p>\n Recall that last week Monday, Farotimi was detained for defaming Afe Babalola, in his book, \u2018Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some activists led by Omoyele Sowore has announced Tuesday as the day for protest to demand for the release of Farotimi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ekiti State magistrates\u2019 court have granted bail to Dele Farotimi, the human rights lawyer. The court released him on bail in the sum of N50 million, with a surety in like sum. The court noted that the surety must own landed property while the matter was adjourned to January 29, 2025. On Monday, the African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1801,1817,1912],"class_list":{"0":"post-17354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-african-action-congress-aac","9":"tag-dele-farotimi","10":"tag-ekiti-state-magistrates-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17358,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions\/17358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}