{"id":76752,"date":"2025-10-16T05:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76752"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:32:27","slug":"court-grants-bail-to-abuja-lawyer-accused-of-forgery-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/court-grants-bail-to-abuja-lawyer-accused-of-forgery-impersonation\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Bail to Abuja Lawyer Accused of Forgery, Impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado<\/p>\n<p>An Abuja High Court has granted bail to lawyer Ibitade Bukola, accused of forging documents and impersonating Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Awa Kalu.<\/p>\n<p>Bukola and co-defendant Victor Giwa are standing trial on charges of forgery and impersonation. While Giwa was granted bail earlier on October 8, Bukola\u2019s application was deferred due to lack of a written request.<\/p>\n<p>At Wednesday\u2019s hearing, Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie admitted Bukola to bail in the sum of \u20a630 million with two sureties; civil servants not below Grade Level 16, residing in Abuja with verifiable addresses and valid identification.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered Bukola to deposit her international passport and remain in Suleja Correctional Facility until she meets the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The case was adjourned to October 30, 2025, for trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado An Abuja High Court has granted bail to lawyer Ibitade Bukola, accused of forging documents and impersonating Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Awa Kalu. Bukola and co-defendant Victor Giwa are standing trial on charges of forgery and impersonation. While Giwa was granted bail earlier on October 8, Bukola\u2019s application was deferred due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76752","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\/76752","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76754,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76752\/revisions\/76754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}