Nigeria, Feb. 13 -- The Court of Appeal in Yola has granted bail to businessman Fred Ajudua, setting aside a November 2025 decision of the Lagos State High Court which refused him pre-trial release.

In a judgement delivered on 30 January, Frederick Oho, who read the lead decision of the three-member panel, held that the trial court misapplied a previous Supreme Court ruling in denying the defendant bail. Other members of the panel, Olusumbo Goodluck and Abdulazeez Waziri, consented.

PREMIUM TIMES obtained a certified true copy of the judgement on Thursday.

The judgement appears to run counter to last year's decision of the Supreme Court on Mr Ajudua's bail, but the Court of Appeal justices explained that the Lagos High Court judge who ...