{"id":231147,"date":"2026-04-23T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-phone-tapping-charges-court-postpones-el-rufais-bail-hearing-orders-his-remand\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:17:02","slug":"nigeria-phone-tapping-charges-court-postpones-el-rufais-bail-hearing-orders-his-remand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-phone-tapping-charges-court-postpones-el-rufais-bail-hearing-orders-his-remand\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Phone Tapping Charges &#8211; Court Postpones El-Rufai&#8217;s Bail Hearing, Orders His Remand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>The SSS arraigned Mr El-Rufai on Thursday on charges of tapping National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu&#8217;s phone call.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, postponed the hearing of former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kdsg.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaduna State<\/a><\/strong> Governor Nasir El-Rufai&#8217;s bail application, following his arraignment on phone tapping charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The judge, Joyce Abdulmalik, set 18 May for the hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">She ordered the former governor remanded in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS), the prosecuting agency, pending the bail&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230404.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 SSS arraigned Mr El-Rufai on Thursday on charges of tapping National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu&#8217;s phone call. The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, postponed the hearing of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai&#8217;s bail application, following his arraignment on phone tapping charges. The judge, Joyce Abdulmalik, set 18 May for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231148,"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":[258,256,7900,7578,6185,16446,6636,257,4687,393,6186,9200,15235,23830,254,14376],"class_list":["post-231147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-charges","tag-court","tag-elrufais","tag-hearing","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-orders","tag-phone","tag-postpones","tag-remand","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tapping"],"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\/231147","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=231147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}