{"id":58416,"date":"2024-12-24T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58416"},"modified":"2024-12-24T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:09:11","slug":"farotimi-regains-freedom-after-meeting-bail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/24\/farotimi-regains-freedom-after-meeting-bail-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Farotimi Regains Freedom After Meeting Bail Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has been released from custody after meeting the bail conditions set by a Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court in Ado Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi was arrested earlier this month over allegations of defaming Afe Babalola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD).<\/p>\n<p>His release was confirmed by activist Omoyele Sowore, who announced on X: \u201cDele Farotimi is no longer in Ekiti State prison facilities and is now heading home to Lagos. The struggle continues!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court granted bail at N30 million with strict conditions, including two sureties\u2014one with property ownership, the submission of his passport, and a ban on granting media interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi\u2019s release ends his detention and marks a key moment in the ongoing legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently en route to his Lagos residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo\u00a0 Human rights lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has been released from custody after meeting the bail conditions set by a Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court in Ado Ekiti. Farotimi was arrested earlier this month over allegations of defaming Afe Babalola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD). His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-58416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58418,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58416\/revisions\/58418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}