{"id":228600,"date":"2026-03-26T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-grants-speedy-hearing-as-terror-suspects-admit-spying-on-u-s-israeli-embassies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:49:11","slug":"nigeria-court-grants-speedy-hearing-as-terror-suspects-admit-spying-on-u-s-israeli-embassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-grants-speedy-hearing-as-terror-suspects-admit-spying-on-u-s-israeli-embassies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Grants Speedy Hearing As Terror Suspects Admit Spying On U.S., Israeli Embassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the ongoing trial of three terror suspects accused of spying on American and Israeli embassies in Nigeria for certain individuals in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Justice Emeka Nwite made the order following an oral application by prosecuting lawyer Bello Abu, which was not opposed by defence lawyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three men, Haruna Ali Abbas, Ibrahim Hussaini Musa and Adam Suleiman, were arrested in Kano&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603260299.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 Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the ongoing trial of three terror suspects accused of spying on American and Israeli embassies in Nigeria for certain individuals in Iran. Justice Emeka Nwite made the order following an oral application by prosecuting lawyer Bello Abu, which was not opposed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680779:c2c98dc9295c069c24189edd4b7bc16f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[23337,258,256,6185,4911,10875,6636,2670,257,4687,393,254,12686,1872,4360,5045,2282],"class_list":["post-228600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-admit","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-embassies","tag-grants","tag-hearing","tag-israeli","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speedy","tag-spying","tag-suspects","tag-terror","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680779:c2c98dc9295c069c24189edd4b7bc16f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600","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=228600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}