{"id":230572,"date":"2026-04-17T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-blord-granted-bail-sowore\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:50:18","slug":"nigeria-blord-granted-bail-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-blord-granted-bail-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Blord Granted Bail &#8211; Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">PREMIUM TIMES reported that Blord was remanded in custody on 1 April until 27 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Linus &#8220;Blord&#8221; Ifejirika, who was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre over allegations of criminal conspiracy, impersonation, and the unauthorised use of activist Martins &#8220;VeryDarkMan (VDM)&#8221; Otse&#8217;s identity, has been granted bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">PREMIUM TIMES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/entertainment\/naija-fashion\/869105-blord-ill-send-you-to-prison-too-vdm-issues-warning-to-sowore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that Blord was remanded in custody on 1 April until 27 April over the offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170409.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>PREMIUM TIMES reported that Blord was remanded in custody on 1 April until 27 April. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Linus &#8220;Blord&#8221; Ifejirika, who was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre over allegations of criminal conspiracy, impersonation, and the unauthorised use of activist Martins &#8220;VeryDarkMan (VDM)&#8221; Otse&#8217;s identity, has been granted bail. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Blord was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230573,"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":[258,256,7900,54184,10683,257,4687,393,254,19526],"class_list":["post-230572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-blord","tag-granted","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sowore"],"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\/230572","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=230572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}