{"id":60077,"date":"2025-01-28T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60077"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:30:40","slug":"court-adjourns-trial-over-christmas-stampede-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/28\/court-adjourns-trial-over-christmas-stampede-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Adjourns Trial Over Christmas Stampede Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan has adjourned the trial of former Ooni of Ife&#8217;s wife, Naomi Silekunola; broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat; and Islamic High School Principal, Abdulahib Fasasi, until March 24, 2025.<br \/>\nThe trio faces charges of conspiracy, murder, manslaughter, and negligence following the deaths of 35 children in a stampede at a Christmas funfair on December 18, 2024.<br \/>\nTheir counsel argued that the initial holden charge was invalid, leading to bail being granted by the High Court. A formal charge has since been filed, but the defendants are yet to be served.<br \/>\nThe adjournment allows for plea-taking at the High Court before further proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai The Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan has adjourned the trial of former Ooni of Ife&#8217;s wife, Naomi Silekunola; broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat; and Islamic High School Principal, Abdulahib Fasasi, until March 24, 2025. The trio faces charges of conspiracy, murder, manslaughter, and negligence following the deaths of 35 children in a stampede at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60077","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=60077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60079,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60077\/revisions\/60079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}