{"id":3379,"date":"2026-08-21T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:34:52","slug":"fbi-given-until-august-28-to-oppose-release-of-alleged-tinubu-drug-related-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/08\/21\/fbi-given-until-august-28-to-oppose-release-of-alleged-tinubu-drug-related-records\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Given Until August 28 to Oppose Release of Alleged Tinubu Drug Related Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3380\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_20260821_212938_0000-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_20260821_212938_0000-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_20260821_212938_0000-767x1024.png 767w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_20260821_212938_0000-768x1026.png 768w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_20260821_212938_0000.png 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A United States federal judge has granted the FBI permission to submit documents related to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s alleged drug-trafficking records for private review by the court.<\/p>\n<p>According to an update on the case, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell directed the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration , the U.S. Department of Justice , and President Tinubu to file their opposition to the release of the records by <strong>August 28, 2026, \u201cand no later.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development means the court will privately examine the documents before determining whether they should be released publicly.<\/p>\n<p>FBI\u2019s request for confidential judicial review indicates that the records contain highly sensitive information. It further alleges that the material may involve information concerning drug trafficking investigations and confidential sources.<\/p>\n<p>However, the claims about what the documents contain and what they may establish remain allegations at this stage. A court\u2019s decision to review records privately does not, by itself, establish that President Tinubu engaged in drug trafficking or that any allegation against him is true.<\/p>\n<p>Drug Trafficking case has attracted renewed attention following the change in the U.S. administration, with the parties involved now expected to present their arguments before the court\u2019s August 28 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The development also contrasts, according to the update, with the position previously attributed to the Biden administration, which was accused of resisting efforts to obtain the records.<\/p>\n<p>US court\u2019s latest order is expected to bring the long-running dispute closer to a decision on whether the alleged records concerning President Tinubu can be made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States federal judge has granted the FBI permission to submit documents related to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s alleged drug-trafficking records for private review by the court. According to an update on the case, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell directed the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration , the U.S. Department of Justice , and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}