{"id":248040,"date":"2026-10-24T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-rejects-key-evidence-in-dasukis-n33-2bn-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:00:07","slug":"nigeria-court-rejects-key-evidence-in-dasukis-n33-2bn-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-rejects-key-evidence-in-dasukis-n33-2bn-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Rejects Key Evidence in Dasuki&#8217;s N33.2bn Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The judge ruled that the statements &#8220;failed to comply with sections 15(4) and 17(2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday rejected key exhibits the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) presented to prove its N33.2billion fraud charges against former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki and his co-defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The rejected exhibits were seven extra-judicial statements attributed to Mr Dasuki&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230535.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 judge ruled that the statements &#8220;failed to comply with sections 15(4) and 17(2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.&#8221; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday rejected key exhibits the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) presented to prove its N33.2billion fraud charges against former National Security Adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248041,"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":[258,256,6185,45382,7013,7274,55699,257,4687,393,8440,254,6564],"class_list":["post-248040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-dasukis","tag-evidence","tag-key","tag-n33-2bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"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\/248040","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=248040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}