{"id":76364,"date":"2025-10-09T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76364"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:15:26","slug":"sterling-bank-condemns-protest-at-abuja-branch-reaffirms-commitment-to-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/sterling-bank-condemns-protest-at-abuja-branch-reaffirms-commitment-to-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Bank Condemns Protest at Abuja Branch, Reaffirms Commitment to Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sterling Bank Limited has condemned what it described as an \u201cunlawful protest\u201d at its Abuja branch, reaffirming its commitment to due process and judicial authority.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the bank said the protest, staged on October 8, 2025, by associates of a debtor posing as civil society groups, was an attempt to mislead the public and defy a Federal High Court order restraining Miden Systems and its affiliates from further action in an ongoing legal dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s Chief Security Officer, Michael Boniface, described the incident as \u201creckless and contemptuous,\u201d adding that it would be reported to law enforcement for investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that security operatives swiftly restored order and normal operations resumed immediately, with no harm to staff, customers, or property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Sterling Bank Limited has condemned what it described as an \u201cunlawful protest\u201d at its Abuja branch, reaffirming its commitment to due process and judicial authority. In a statement on Thursday, the bank said the protest, staged on October 8, 2025, by associates of a debtor posing as civil society groups, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76364","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\/76364","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76366,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76364\/revisions\/76366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}