{"id":60143,"date":"2025-01-29T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60143"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:34:15","slug":"court-adjourns-yahaya-bellos-n110bn-fraud-case-to-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/29\/court-adjourns-yahaya-bellos-n110bn-fraud-case-to-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Adjourns Case Against Yahaya Bello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal Capital Territory High Court has adjourned the N110 billion fraud case against former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to April 3 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Maryann Anenih announced the adjournment after the prosecution, led by Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), called its first witness, Fabian Nworah, a property developer.<\/p>\n<p>The defense, however, raised concerns over missing witness statements, arguing it hindered fair trial preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite lengthy procedural arguments, the court directed the prosecution to proceed, with Nworah testifying about a disputed property transaction linked to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A Federal Capital Territory High Court has adjourned the N110 billion fraud case against former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to April 3 and 24. Justice Maryann Anenih announced the adjournment after the prosecution, led by Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), called its first witness, Fabian Nworah, a property developer. The defense, however, raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143","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=60143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60161,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143\/revisions\/60161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}