{"id":60032,"date":"2025-01-27T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60032"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:21:49","slug":"ajayi-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-of-nysc-member-adaidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/ajayi-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-of-nysc-member-adaidu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajayi Pleads Not Guilty to Murder of NYSC Member Adaidu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Timileyin Ajayi, accused of the murder of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member Salome Adaidu, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of culpable homicide punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p>Arraigned on January 27, 2025, before Justice Simeon Aboki in Lafia, Nasarawa State, Ajayi faces trial following his arrest on January 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Nasarawa State Police Command confirmed that Ajayi was detained after investigations into Adaidu\u2019s death at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>Officer-in-Charge Stanley Nwaforagu expressed confidence in the prosecution&#8217;s case, emphasizing the commitment to ensuring justice.<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel Joseph Tukur stressed the importance of a fair trial, asserting that it is the prosecution\u2019s responsibility to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The court has adjourned the case to March 17\u201320 for an accelerated hearing, with both sides preparing for the upcoming proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo\u00a0 Timileyin Ajayi, accused of the murder of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member Salome Adaidu, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of culpable homicide punishable by death. Arraigned on January 27, 2025, before Justice Simeon Aboki in Lafia, Nasarawa State, Ajayi faces trial following his arrest on January 12. The Nasarawa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60032","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=60032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60034,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60032\/revisions\/60034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}