The Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja on Friday granted Nollywood actress, Angela Okorie, bail in the sum of ₦5 million in an alleged prison defamation and cyberstalking case.

Justice Emeka Nwite granted the bail after being attentive to arguments from each and every the prosecution and the defence following Okorie’s re-arraignment on a seven-depend amended fee.

Recall that Justice Nwite had on Wednesday remanded Angela Okorie in Suleja Penal advanced, Niger Snort, following her arraignment.

The think issued the account for while ruling on an oral bail application by Okorie’s lawyer, Alex Ejesieme (SAN), quickly after the actress pleaded no longer guilty to a 3-depend fee filed by the police.

The think directed that Okorie, a single mother of one, be kept in custody except January 30, when a formal bail application could perhaps well be heard.

Okorie, of 1 Henry Montero Avenue, Lekki Palm City, Ajah, Lagos, is being prosecuted on Payment No: FHC/ABJ/CR/278/2025.

The police sigh that she conspired with Ifeoma Mbonu (now at enormous) to commit cyberstalking and defamation by calling fellow actress Mercy Johnson Okojie a “blood sucking demon” in social media posts on Instagram and TikTok.

The offences, allegedly committed in 2024, are acknowledged to violate the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc) Act, 2015.

After Okorie entered a no longer‑guilty plea, prosecuting lawyer Victor Okoye urged the court docket to remand her in jail and fix a date for the prosecution to begin its case.

Okoye suggested the court docket that Okorie failed to honour police invitations and had jumped bail beforehand granted administratively.

“The administrative bail granted the defendant has since expired upon her arraignment,” Okoye argued.

He urged the court docket to require Okorie to file a formal bail application, enabling the prosecution to manufacture necessary documents supporting its space.

Ejesieme objected to the remand, telling the think that his client became once no longer given ample time to manage her defence.

He suggested the court docket that even if the cost became once filed in July 2025, a duplicate became once supreme served on Okorie about an hour ahead of court docket cases began. He acknowledged she became once arrested in Lagos the old day and delivered to Abuja with out prior demand.

“My client became once never informed in regards to the case in court docket,” Ejesieme acknowledged, including that police denied him salvage entry to to Okorie for a honest briefing.

The defence lawyer asked the court docket to enable Okorie to proceed taking part in the earlier administrative bail or to begin her to his custody so she could perhaps well assemble arrangements for her child in Lagos and file a formal bail application.