{"id":59040,"date":"2025-01-06T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59040"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:12:10","slug":"court-grants-speed-darlington-release-in-defamation-case-against-burna-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/06\/court-grants-speed-darlington-release-in-defamation-case-against-burna-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Speed Darlington Release in Defamation Case Against Burna Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court has ordered the immediate release of Nigerian singer Speed Darlington, also known as Akpi, who was detained over a defamation case involving fellow artist Burna Boy.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision came shortly after socialite Cubana Chief Priest expressed his willingness to assist in securing Speed Darlington\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Abubakar Marshal, Esq. has been appointed as surety for the singer\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Speed Darlington\u2019s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, confirmed the development via a post on X (formerly Twitter), on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He stated: &#8220;The Federal High Court has directed the Nigerian Police to comply with the order to release Speed Darlington immediately, pending the hearing of the substantive matter. The court further directs Abubakar Marshal, Esq. to stand as surety to Akpi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With this ruling, Speed Darlington is expected to regain his freedom while the legal proceedings continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai A Federal High Court has ordered the immediate release of Nigerian singer Speed Darlington, also known as Akpi, who was detained over a defamation case involving fellow artist Burna Boy. The court\u2019s decision came shortly after socialite Cubana Chief Priest expressed his willingness to assist in securing Speed Darlington\u2019s release. Reports indicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[687,1693,59,1694],"class_list":["post-59040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-burna-boy","tag-cubana-chief-priest","tag-featured","tag-speed-darlington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59042,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040\/revisions\/59042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}