{"id":176211,"date":"2024-07-09T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-to-rule-on-emefieles-request-for-permission-to-travel-abroad\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:40:13","slug":"nigeria-court-to-rule-on-emefieles-request-for-permission-to-travel-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-to-rule-on-emefieles-request-for-permission-to-travel-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court to Rule On Emefiele&#8217;s Request for Permission to Travel Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The court has fixed a date to rule on Mr Emefiele&#8217;s application for permission to travel abroad, a request the EFCC opposed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja has fixed 17 July for ruling on former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cbn.gov.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Bank of Nigeria<\/a><\/strong> (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele&#8217;s application for the release of his passport to enable him to travel abroad for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is prosecuting Mr Emefiele on corruption charges before the court,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407090072.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court has fixed a date to rule on Mr Emefiele&#8217;s application for permission to travel abroad, a request the EFCC opposed. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja has fixed 17 July for ruling on former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele&#8217;s application for the release of his passport to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6185,46389,257,4687,393,31972,8333,7858,254,5123],"class_list":["post-176211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-emefieles","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-permission","tag-request","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}