{"id":178476,"date":"2025-09-11T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:54:34","slug":"former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail","title":{"rendered":"Former NNPCL boss, Kyari granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, granted administrative bail to the former group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company limited, NNPCL. Mele Kyari<\/p>\n<p>Kyari submitted himself to the anti-graft agency following alleged $7.2 billion dollar fraud during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The $7.2 billion missing funds was reportedly meant for maintenance of the country\u2019s refineries.<\/p>\n<p>Kyari was interrogated by EFCC officials as investigation into the alleged misappropriation of fund continues.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Wednesday, the federal high court sitting in Abuja ordered the temporary freezing of four bank accounts allegedly linked to the former NNPCL boss.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an ex parte motion filed by the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, granted administrative bail to the former group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company limited, NNPCL. Mele Kyari Kyari submitted himself to the anti-graft agency following alleged $7.2 billion dollar fraud during his tenure. The $7.2 billion missing funds was reportedly meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1127,254,9636],"class_list":["post-178476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-kyari","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpcl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former NNPCL boss, Kyari granted bail - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, granted administrative bail to the former group chief execut ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former NNPCL boss, Kyari granted bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, granted administrative bail to the former group chief execut ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T19:52:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T20:54:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757611658.118942.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Former NNPCL boss, Kyari granted bail\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-11T19:52:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-11T20:54:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\"},\"wordCount\":130,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757611658.118942.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kyari\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPCL\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-nnpcl-boss-kyari-granted-bail\",\"name\":\"Former NNPCL boss, Kyari granted bail - 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