{"id":231487,"date":"2026-04-26T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-adjourns-yahaya-bellos-trial-until-may-6\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:24:23","slug":"nigeria-court-adjourns-yahaya-bellos-trial-until-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-adjourns-yahaya-bellos-trial-until-may-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Adjourns Yahaya Bello&#8217;s Trial Until May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday adjourned the alleged money laundering case filed against former Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi until May 6 for continuation of trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the hearing to allow the former governor&#8217;s lawyer, Joseph Daudu, SAN, to continue with the cross-examination of EFCC&#8217;s 12th prosecution witness (PW-12), Abdullahi Jamilu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Jamilu, who was giving his initial statement to the anti-graft agency to &#8220;refresh his memory,&#8221; said he made the statement to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240555.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 Friday adjourned the alleged money laundering case filed against former Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi until May 6 for continuation of trial. Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the hearing to allow the former governor&#8217;s lawyer, Joseph Daudu, SAN, to continue with the cross-examination of EFCC&#8217;s 12th prosecution witness (PW-12), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231488,"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":[18976,258,256,54273,6185,257,4687,393,254,6564,33667],"class_list":["post-231487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adjourns","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bellos","tag-court","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-yahaya"],"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\/231487","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=231487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}