{"id":6252,"date":"2020-02-18T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:26:54","slug":"agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-after-perfecting-bail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2020\/02\/18\/agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-after-perfecting-bail-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Agba Jalingo Regains Freedom After Perfecting Bail Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cross River Watch Publisher, Agba Jalingo, on Monday, February 17, 2020, regained his freedom after perfecting his\u00a0 bail conditions.<\/h1>\n<p class=\"hyphenate \">Having spent over five months in prison,\u00a0<strong>Justice Sule Shuaibu<\/strong>\u00a0of a Federal High Court in Calabar, on Thursday, February 13, admitted the journalist to a N10 million bail, following an application from his lawyer,\u00a0<strong>Attah Ochinke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hyphenate \">The court also asked that those standing as surety for Jalingo must make a refundable deposit of N700,000 to the court registry to perfect the bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hyphenate \">In the new development, Jalingo who&#8217;s standing trial for treason, has been freed, after he met all his bail requirem<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that\u00a0<strong>Jalingo\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulse.ng\/apo\/nigerian-publisher-agba-jalingo-detained-since-august-22-without-charge\/2rkrd0l\">was arrested on August 22,2019 over a report<\/a>\u00a0alleging that Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>diverted N500 million belonging to the state<\/p>\n<div id=\"left5\" class=\"onet-ad\" data-opt-pos=\"5\" data-slot=\"left\" data-run-module=\"local\/main.addSlotAsync\" data-run-module-isrun=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CL6S246k2-cCFYOadwod0csMSQ\"><strong>Source:Pulse Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross River Watch Publisher, Agba Jalingo, on Monday, February 17, 2020, regained his freedom after perfecting his\u00a0 bail conditions. Having spent over five months in prison,\u00a0Justice Sule Shuaibu\u00a0of a Federal&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2020\/02\/18\/agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-after-perfecting-bail-conditions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1499,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}