{"id":196173,"date":"2025-04-16T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-magistrates-absence-stalls-amac-chairpersons-arraignment-for-certificate-forgery\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:46:48","slug":"nigeria-magistrates-absence-stalls-amac-chairpersons-arraignment-for-certificate-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-magistrates-absence-stalls-amac-chairpersons-arraignment-for-certificate-forgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Magistrate&#8217;s Absence Stalls Amac Chairperson&#8217;s Arraignment for Certificate Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Although the case against the AMAC chairperson appeared on the day&#8217;s cause list, it could not proceed due to the absence of trial Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Ilela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The scheduled arraignment of the chairperson of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Christopher Maikalangu, over alleged certificate forgery was stalled on Wednesday at the Dutse Magistrates&#8217; Court in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Although the case appeared on the day&#8217;s cause list, it could not proceed due to the absence of trial Chief Magistrate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504160544.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>Although the case against the AMAC chairperson appeared on the day&#8217;s cause list, it could not proceed due to the absence of trial Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Ilela. The scheduled arraignment of the chairperson of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Christopher Maikalangu, over alleged certificate forgery was stalled on Wednesday at the Dutse Magistrates&#8217; Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[11086,258,256,51139,40353,15552,13160,12319,16448,257,4687,393,254,11885],"class_list":["post-196173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amac","tag-arraignment","tag-certificate","tag-chairpersons","tag-forgery","tag-magistrates","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196173","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=196173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}