{"id":46056,"date":"2025-09-12T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=46056"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:42:55","slug":"court-grants-bail-to-imo-based-newspaper-publisher-ejike-ogbonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=46056","title":{"rendered":"Court grants bail to Imo Based\u00a0Newspaper\u00a0Publisher, Ejike Ogbonna\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>*Appears in Court in Handcuffs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Magistrate Court sitting in Owerri Imo State on Wednesday September 10, 2025 granted bail in the sum of N2 million to the Publisher of First Citizen Newspaper, Ejike Ogbonna .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other bail conditions include the provision of a surety who must show proof of ownership of a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court and a traditional ruler to endorse the bail bond.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Presiding Magistrate C. J Uzoechi who granted the bail application of the accused noted that the matter is a bailable one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She later adjourned the matter to October 3, 2025 for hearing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ejike Ogbonna, who was brought to court in handcuffs is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on alleged cyber bullying.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He is accused of defaming the Special Adviser to the Imo State Governor on Compliance, Chinasa Nwaneri through a voice note allegedly circulated via the social media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Appears in Court in Handcuffs. A Magistrate Court sitting in Owerri Imo State on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",600,449,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",508,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",267,200,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/court-judgement.jpg",50,37,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46057,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056\/revisions\/46057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}