{"id":151358,"date":"2026-07-09T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:37:32","slug":"court-remands-ex-cct-chairman-danladi-umar-in-kuje-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358","title":{"rendered":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) pending the hearing of his bail application.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, gave the order on Thursday after Umar was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a four-count charge bordering on alleged abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The EFCC accused the former tribunal chairman of using his office to confer undue advantage on himself while serving as head of the Code of Conduct Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Umar pleaded not guilty to all four charges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Christopher Mshelia, urged the court to fix a date for trial and remand the defendant in a correctional facility pending the commencement of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Counsel to the defendant informed the court that a bail application had already been filed and requested that it be heard.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, the prosecution opposed the immediate hearing of the application, stating that it had only just been served with the bail motion and needed time to study and file a response.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In his ruling, Justice Kekemeke ordered that Umar be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre and adjourned the case until July 15, 2026, for the hearing and determination of the bail application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison Former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) pending the hearing of his bail application. Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court sitting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[3172,3171,132,3173],"class_list":["post-151358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-news","tag-cct","tag-danladi-umar","tag-efcc","tag-kuje"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Public Pulse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Zakari Bidoma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Zakari Bidoma\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Zakari Bidoma\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c\"},\"headline\":\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-292.png\",\"keywords\":[\"CCT\",\"Danladi umar\",\"EFCC\",\"Kuje\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Featured\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358\",\"name\":\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-292.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c\"},\"description\":\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-292.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-292.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":420,\"caption\":\"Justice Danladi Umar\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?p=151358#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Public Pulse\",\"description\":\"breaking news that matters\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c\",\"name\":\"Zakari Bidoma\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Zakari Bidoma\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thepublicpulse.ng\\\/?author=2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse","description":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse","og_description":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison","og_url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358","og_site_name":"The Public Pulse","article_published_time":"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":420,"url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Zakari Bidoma","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Zakari Bidoma","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358"},"author":{"name":"Zakari Bidoma","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c"},"headline":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison","datePublished":"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358"},"wordCount":241,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","keywords":["CCT","Danladi umar","EFCC","Kuje"],"articleSection":["Featured","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358","url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358","name":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison - The Public Pulse","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","datePublished":"2026-07-09T17:37:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c"},"description":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje PrisonCourt Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","width":696,"height":420,"caption":"Justice Danladi Umar"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=151358#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Court Remands Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar in Kuje Prison"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/","name":"The Public Pulse","description":"breaking news that matters","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/2aa7f93203c42d4f10ce6c365300269c","name":"Zakari Bidoma","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c66bc9a1fc1b9976c743dd09e7a5a7621de1b4fec049686ae48950b2416aba6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Zakari Bidoma"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/"],"url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?author=2"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-292.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151360,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151358\/revisions\/151360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}