{"id":70973,"date":"2025-07-18T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70973"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:53:18","slug":"dino-melaye-makes-court-debut-as-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/dino-melaye-makes-court-debut-as-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Melaye Makes Court Debut as Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye made his first appearance as a lawyer at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, July 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before Justice Emeka Nwite in Court 8, Melaye, dressed in full legal attire, moved a motion on behalf of a client in a civil case.<\/p>\n<p>His courtroom debut comes just over a week after being called to the Nigerian Bar on July 10.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance drew attention from legal peers and social media, with photos and videos circulating shortly after the session.<\/p>\n<p>The case was adjourned to a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Melaye\u2019s courtroom debut marks a new chapter in his career, adding legal practice to his background in politics and public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Former Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye made his first appearance as a lawyer at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, July 18, 2025. Appearing before Justice Emeka Nwite in Court 8, Melaye, dressed in full legal attire, moved a motion on behalf of a client in a civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70973","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\/70973","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=70973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70975,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70973\/revisions\/70975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}