{"id":60631,"date":"2025-02-06T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60631"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:40:57","slug":"nollywood-filmmaker-bags-jail-term-for-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/06\/nollywood-filmmaker-bags-jail-term-for-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood Filmmaker Bags Jail Term for Drug Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced 40-year-old Nollywood filmmaker, Mbadiwe Emeka, to five years in prison for trafficking 17.30 kilograms of Canada Loud, a variant of Cannabis Sativa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa handed down the sentence after Emeka pleaded guilty to charges filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker was arrested on December 24, 2024, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, during a cargo inspection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors revealed that the illicit substance, shipped from Houston, USA, was imported with the assistance of an accomplice, Uzoekwe Ugochukwu James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced 40-year-old Nollywood filmmaker, Mbadiwe Emeka, to five years in prison for trafficking 17.30 kilograms of Canada Loud, a variant of Cannabis Sativa. &nbsp; Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa handed down the sentence after Emeka pleaded guilty to charges filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60631","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\/60631","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60633,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60631\/revisions\/60633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}