{"id":47084,"date":"2021-07-20T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=47084"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:47:20","slug":"interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer","title":{"rendered":"Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Cotonou \u2013 Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Yomi Alliyu (SAN), counsel to the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has revealed that his client was nabbed by the International Criminal Police Organisation in Cotonou, Benin Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Igboho\u2019s lawyer stated this in a statement on Tuesday hours after the Yoruba nation freedom fighter was arrested in an airport in Cotonou while allegedly making moves to fly to an European country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the wanted agitator was arrested alongside his wife, who is a German citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel revealed that the arrest was in collaboration with the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the German Government and other the international community \u201cto rise up and curb the impunity of the Nigerian Government by refusing any application for extradition of our Client who already has application before the International Criminal Court duly acknowledged\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yoruba Nation: Sunday Igboho writes Buhari govt, demands N500m for damage done to cars, others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Yomi Alliyu (SAN), counsel to the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has revealed that his client was nabbed by the International Criminal Police Organisation in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho\u2019s lawyer stated this in a statement on Tuesday hours after the Yoruba nation freedom fighter was arrested in an airport in Cotonou while allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4875,4880,254,2625],"class_list":["post-47084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-cotonou","tag-interpol","tag-nigeria","tag-sunday-igboho"],"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>Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Cotonou \u2013 Lawyer - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yomi Alliyu (SAN), counsel to the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has revealed that his client was nabbed by the Internat ...\" \/>\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\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Cotonou \u2013 Lawyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yomi Alliyu (SAN), counsel to the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has revealed that his client was nabbed by the Internat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-20T16:37:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f6efeef0140.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Cotonou \u2013 Lawyer\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-20T16:37:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f6efeef0140.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Cotonou\",\"INTERPOL\",\"Nigeria\",\"Sunday Igboho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/interpol-arrested-sunday-igboho-wife-in-cotonou-lawyer\",\"name\":\"Interpol arrested Sunday Igboho, wife in Cotonou \u2013 Lawyer - 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