Court to rule on Usoro’s No-case submission till June 10 over alleged N1.4bn fraud Court to rule on Usoro’s No-case submission till June 10 over alleged N1.4bn fraud
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Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has reserved ruling on the no-case submission filed and agued by ex- NBA President, Mr Paul Usoro SAN, to 10th of June.
Justice Rilwan Aikawa fixed the date after hearing the arguments of both counsels for the prosecution and defendant.
At the resumed of proceeding today, Effiong O Effiong SAN led three other Senior Advocates of Nigeria including Sina Sofola, Bode Olanipekun and Chukwuka Ikwuazom appeared for the embattled ex NBA President.
Adeshola Soyele
Updated March 12, 2021
A file photo of the former NBA President, Mr Paul Usoro, addressing a press conference in Abuja.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has reserved its ruling in the ‘no-case submission’ filed by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Paul Usoro SAN.
Justice Rilwan Aikawa fixed June 10 for ruling after hearing the arguments of both counsels for the prosecution and defendant.
At the proceedings on Friday, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Effiong Effiong, led three other SANs – Sina Sofola, Bode Olanipekun and Chukwuka Ikwuazom, to appear for the former NBA President who is also a senior advocate.
After taking the evidence of its second witness, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has closed its case at the Federal High Court, Lagos, in the alleged N1.4billion money laundering trial of a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul Usoro, SAN.
The counsel to the EFCC, Uduak Kufre who asked Justice Rilwan Aikawa to discharge the witness also told the court that the commission was pleased with the evidence it had put forward in the case.
The EFCC had called Idongesit Udom, a deputy manager at Zenith Bank as it’s a first witness and Abdulrahman Arabo, the investigating officer as its second and final witness.
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