{"id":68222,"date":"2025-06-16T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68222"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:11:14","slug":"breaking-court-grants-emefiele-bail-with-n2bn-property-bond-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/breaking-court-grants-emefiele-bail-with-n2bn-property-bond-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Court Grants Emefiele Bail with N2bn Property Bond Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court on Monday granted bail to former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor, Godwin Emefiele, under stringent conditions reflecting the weight of the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that Emefiele must provide two sureties, each owning landed properties valued at no less than \u20a62 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the sureties must sign a binding undertaking to be remanded in custody should Emefiele fail to appear for trial.<\/p>\n<p>He was given 72 hours to meet the bail conditions or face immediate remand in prison pending the commencement of his trial.<\/p>\n<p>Emefiele is facing multiple charges stemming from his tenure as head of Nigeria\u2019s apex bank, with the court\u2019s ruling underscoring the judiciary\u2019s firm stance on accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; A Federal High Court on Monday granted bail to former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor, Godwin Emefiele, under stringent conditions reflecting the weight of the charges against him. The court ruled that Emefiele must provide two sureties, each owning landed properties valued at no less than \u20a62 billion. Additionally, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68224,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions\/68224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}