{"id":2260,"date":"2023-07-25T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:39:29","slug":"emefiele-arrives-court-with-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/emefiele-arrives-court-with-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Emefiele Arrives Court With Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), arrived at the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos, around 9:18am on Tuesday, clutching the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The King James Version (KJV) of the holy book was tucked inside a red paperback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Emefiele will be arraigned before Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, over alleged \u201cillegal possession of firearms\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On June 9, President Bola Tinubu suspended Emefiele and asked him to transfer his responsibilities to Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi, deputy governor, operations directorate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The day after, the DSS announced that Emefiele was in its custody for \u201csome investigative reasons\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">See some photos as Emefiele made his way into the courtroom today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), arrived at the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}