{"id":78725,"date":"2025-11-14T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78725"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:25:15","slug":"adeyanju-urges-police-to-investigate-paystack-co-founder-ezra-olubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/14\/adeyanju-urges-police-to-investigate-paystack-co-founder-ezra-olubi\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeyanju Urges Police to Investigate Paystack Co-Founder Ezra Olubi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has called on the Nigeria Police Force to open an investigation into Paystack co-founder Ezra Olubi over allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on X on Friday, Adeyanju said the police do not need a formal petition to act, noting that Nigerian laws empower them to investigate suspected offences.<\/p>\n<p>He cited provisions of the Criminal Code, Child Rights Act, VAPP Act and Cybercrimes Act covering sexual offences, voyeurism, and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>His call follows reports that Paystack, owned by Stripe, suspended Olubi after allegations involving a subordinate went viral on November 12. The company confirmed it had launched a formal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy escalated after decade-old tweets allegedly linked to Olubi resurfaced, containing sexually suggestive comments about colleagues, minors, and anime characters.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju argued that while old tweets may not constitute conclusive evidence, they can trigger police action.<\/p>\n<p>He noted, however, that securing convictions may be difficult without complainants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has called on the Nigeria Police Force to open an investigation into Paystack co-founder Ezra Olubi over allegations of sexual misconduct. In a statement posted on X on Friday, Adeyanju said the police do not need a formal petition to act, noting that Nigerian laws empower them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78725","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=78725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78727,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78725\/revisions\/78727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}