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The police also announced a ban on the use of fireworks in the state during the Yuletide season and beyond.<\/p>\n
The police in Ekiti have announced a ban on ‘illegal’ gatherings and protests in the state. The ban comes a few days to the planned protest, on Tuesday, by activists to demand the release of human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi<\/a><\/strong> who is being tried by the police at an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n Mr Farotimi is accused of defaming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afe Babalola. He is accused of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The police also announced a ban on the use of fireworks in the state during the Yuletide season and beyond. The police in Ekiti have announced a ban on ‘illegal’ gatherings and protests in the state. The ban comes a few days to the planned protest, on Tuesday, by activists to demand the release of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400620:057134b31b9ff800dec81a25063fe335:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7185,15619,17969,50132,19653,6918,257,4687,393,662,5253,254],"class_list":["post-186142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-dele","tag-ekiti","tag-farotimi","tag-gatherings","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400620:057134b31b9ff800dec81a25063fe335:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186142","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=186142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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