{"id":179558,"date":"2025-09-28T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179558"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:30:53","slug":"it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawyer-femi-falana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179558","title":{"rendered":"It is a criminal offence to reject the Naira, Bribes now paid in dollars \u2013 Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has raised concerns over the increasing trend of bribes and payments being made in foreign currency, warning that the dollarisation of the Nigerian economy not only undermines the naira but also fuels corruption. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics on Sunday night&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/09\/15\/it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawyer-femi-falana\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has raised concerns over the increasing trend of bribes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",699,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",640,384,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",640,384,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",699,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",699,419,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",699,419,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1.jpg",699,419,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179558-it-is-a-criminal-offence-to-reject-the-naira-bribes-now-paid-in-dollars-human-rights-lawye68d946b1ed0a1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}