{"id":63792,"date":"2025-04-04T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63792"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:00:09","slug":"court-gags-parties-in-natashas-suit-against-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/04\/court-gags-parties-in-natashas-suit-against-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Gags Parties in Natasha&#8217;s Suit Against Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has barred all parties in the ongoing legal battle between suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio from granting media interviews or streaming court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came on April 4 after Akpabio\u2019s counsel, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), raised concerns over Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s repeated television appearances where she discussed elements of the case still pending before the court.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nyako, in a firm but brief ruling, warned that neither the litigants nor their legal teams are permitted to make public comments about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>She also extended the order to prohibit any form of live-streaming or social media coverage from within the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Legal analysts say the court\u2019s move is aimed at safeguarding judicial integrity and ensuring that media narratives do not prejudice the case or mislead the public.<\/p>\n<p>Further developments on the high-stakes case are expected as the court resumes hearing in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has barred all parties in the ongoing legal battle between suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio from granting media interviews or streaming court proceedings. The decision came on April 4 after Akpabio\u2019s counsel, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), raised concerns over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792","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=63792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63794,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792\/revisions\/63794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}