Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N29bn Fraud: Courts Adjourns Nyako’s Trial to Feb 26

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on February 6, 2018, adjourned to February 26, 2018 for ruling on the admissibility of a document, tendered by Zakari Uthman, the seventeenth prosecution witness, in the trial of a former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako. Nyako is facing trial in N29billion fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He is being prosecuted alongside his son, Senator Abdul-Aziz Nyako, Abubakar Aliyu and Zulkifikk Abba on a 37-count charge of criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office…