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The Port Elizabeth High Court found that the defence had not put forward any exceptional circumstances to warrant granting Timothy Omotoso bail.
Televangelist Timothy Omotoso has been behind bars since April 2017 and has tried to get bail on several occasions.
Pastor Timothy Omotoso has been behind bars since his arrest at the Port Elizabeth International Airport in 2017.
Last month, proceedings in the Port Elizabeth High Court were also postponed as the country was under level 5 lockdown restrictions.
The State is changing prosecutors and therefore the matter has been postponed to April.
The Nigerian televangelist and two women face a string of charges including rape, human trafficking and racketeering in the Port Elizabeth High Court.
American Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, has alleged Epstein - who was found dead in a US prison in August - trafficked her to Britain then to have sex with Prince Andrew.
One of Robert Kelly’s lawyers, Douglas Anton, entered the plea to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking before Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione in federal court in Brooklyn.
The Nigerian televangelist and two women appeared in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Friday after the trial started afresh before a new judge on Monday.
The defence wanted the court to compel the State to provide more information on the charges, arguing they were vague.
The women and girls, most aged 16-30, had been told they would be taken to Malaysia to work in hospitality but instead were forced into prostitution.
Defence lawyer Peter Daubermann says the Supreme Court of Appeal has yet to make a ruling on two applications and he's therefore asked for a postponement.
The Minister for Women in the Presidency on Monday attended proceedings against Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso, who has been accused of sex trafficking and rape.
During a ceremony in March, Oba Ewuare II, leader of the historic kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria, invoked curses on anyone who used witchcraft to aid illegal migration.
Officials in Nigeria said they had intelligence showing plans were well underway to traffic local women into Russia for the football tournament.
Allison Mack is accused of helping Keith Raniere to recruit women who were then exploited 'both sexually and for their labour'.
The Nigerian televangelist was arrested at Port Elizabeth International Airport, almost a year ago, on charges of trafficking more than 30 girls and women.
Timothy Omotoso faces numerous charges, including rape, sexual assault, fraud and for being in the country illegally.