{"id":80806,"date":"2025-12-24T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80806"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:39:32","slug":"malami-granted-interim-bail-court-sets-jan-5-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/24\/malami-granted-interim-bail-court-sets-jan-5-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Malami Granted Interim Bail, Court Sets Jan 5 Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted interim bail to former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, in a case filed by the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Bello Kawu ruled on December 23, 2025, allowing Malami to remain free pending the hearing of the substantive motion fixed for January 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Under bail terms, Malami must surrender his international passport and provide two sureties, including the Director-General of the Nigerian Legal Aid Council and a House of Representatives member.<\/p>\n<p>The court cited \u201cexceptional hardship\u201d as the reason for the interim release.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC has accused Malami of alleged financial and administrative improprieties during his tenure from 2015 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The January hearing will determine the next steps in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted interim bail to former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, in a case filed by the EFCC. Justice Bello Kawu ruled on December 23, 2025, allowing Malami to remain free pending the hearing of the substantive motion fixed for January 5, 2026. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80808,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806\/revisions\/80808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}