{"id":9486,"date":"2025-11-15T05:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:12:58","slug":"actor-baba-ijesha-released-from-prison-after-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/actor-baba-ijesha-released-from-prison-after-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Baba Ijesha released from prison after 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Nigerian actor Olanrewaju Omiyinka, professionally known as Baba Ijesha, has finally been released from prison.<\/p>\n<p>The actor regained his freedom on Friday, November 14, 2025, after spending over three years in custody on an alleged sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing Baba Ijesha\u2019s release, actor Yomi Fabiyi, in a post shared on his Instagram page on Friday evening, stated that he was freed after being cleared by the Appeal Court.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-_bound=\"1\" data-_defined=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ2A0vmx85ADFSKS_QcddpcvSQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fabiyi wrote: \u201cYou are now officially free and out . Baba Ijesha is not just back but better.<br \/>\n\u201cI am also happy you were cleared by the APPEAL COURT of ever having sex\/defiling any child\/minor. The 7-year-old story is a charade. We live in a terrible world, where sentiments and wickedness rise above the rule of law and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baba Ijesha was sentenced to 16 years\u2019 imprisonment on July 14, 2022, by the Lagos State High Court for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Nigerian actor Olanrewaju Omiyinka, professionally known as Baba Ijesha, has finally been released from prison. The actor regained his freedom on Friday, November 14, 2025, after spending over three years in custody on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}