{"id":11407,"date":"2026-11-07T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/gombe-islamic-scholar-granted-bail-in-cyberstalking-case\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:15:49","slug":"gombe-islamic-scholar-granted-bail-in-cyberstalking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/gombe-islamic-scholar-granted-bail-in-cyberstalking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Gombe Islamic scholar granted bail in cyberstalking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Gombe-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Abubakar, has been granted bail after spending a day in custody over allegations of intentional insult, defamation, and cyberstalking against a political leader in the state, Aliyu Muhammad.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Abubakar, a resident of Jekadafari Quarters in Gombe, was initially remanded at the Medium Custodial Centre following an order by Magistrate Aliyu Galadima.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The defendant was accused of making insulting and provocative statements against Muhammad on social media, which the complainant alleged affected his political activities and caused him emotional trauma.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>According to the prosecution, the complainant, aggrieved by what he described as the defendant\u2019s unlawful conduct, approached the court for redress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The prosecution urged the court to consider the allegations as offences of intentional insult, defamation, and cyberstalking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It stated that the offences contravened Sections 399 and 391 of the Penal Code Law, as well as Section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The case, which originated from the office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, was brought before the court with an application seeking an ex parte order for the defendant\u2019s remand and other consequential orders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, counsel for the defendant, Hamidu Inusa, filed an application seeking bail for his client.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Although the magistrate initially ordered Abubakar\u2019s remand, he was granted bail and released a day later.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The case was adjourned until November 19, 2026, for further mention.<\/em>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gombe-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Abubakar, has been granted bail after spending a day in custody over allegations of intentional insult, defamation, and cyberstalking against a political leader in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}