{"id":187566,"date":"2024-12-31T01:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-collective-voices-of-nigerians-saved-my-life-ensured-my-freedom-dele-farotimi\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T01:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:08:06","slug":"nigeria-how-collective-voices-of-nigerians-saved-my-life-ensured-my-freedom-dele-farotimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-collective-voices-of-nigerians-saved-my-life-ensured-my-freedom-dele-farotimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Collective Voices of Nigerians Saved My Life, Ensured My Freedom &#8211; Dele Farotimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Mr Farotimi was released from a correctional facility in Ekiti State on Tuesday after meeting bail conditions in a defamation case involving senior lawyer Afe Babalola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nigerian human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi has attributed his release from 20-day detention to the collective support of Nigerians, who lauded their unity in demanding Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Premium Times <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/regional\/ssouth-west\/763485-dele-farotimi-leaves-prison-after-20-days-of-detention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that Mr Farotimi was released from the correctional facility in Ekiti State on Tuesday after meeting the bail conditions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412300310.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>Mr Farotimi was released from a correctional facility in Ekiti State on Tuesday after meeting bail conditions in a defamation case involving senior lawyer Afe Babalola. Nigerian human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi has attributed his release from 20-day detention to the collective support of Nigerians, who lauded their unity in demanding Justice. Premium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187567,"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":[258,256,10163,15619,19421,50132,7636,6448,257,4687,393,6665,22724,254,6389],"class_list":["post-187566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collective","tag-dele","tag-ensured","tag-farotimi","tag-freedom","tag-life","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-saved","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voices"],"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\/187566","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=187566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}