Daniel Osaigor News Today

The trial had begun before Justice Aikawa and witnesses were still being led in evidence until Mr Aikawa was transferred out of the Lagos division.

The EFCC preferred a 17-count charge bordering on N4.6 billion money laundering against them before a former judge, Mohammed Aikawa.

The trial judge was transferred out of the Lagos division and the case was consequently assigned to a new judge to start from the beginning.

Fani-Kayode, who was the Director of Publicity of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign organisation for the 2015 election, was accused of conspiring with others to directly and indirectly retain various sums, which the EFCC claimed they ought to have reasonably known were proceeds of crime.

Mr Fani-Kayode is charged alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman, before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Also charged is Yusuf

A federal high court in Ikoyi has ruled that the federal government has no powers to operate marriage registries in the county....

Mr Fani-Kayode's lawyer had stated that his client was “currently on bed rest" at the Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja, and a report was submitted to that effect.

Politician Femi Fani-Kayode debunks media reports that he was arrested by the EFCC in Lagos on Tuesday. He says he honoured EFCC invitation

Mr Fani-Kayode was reportedly picked up by the EFCC operatives shortly after his trial on charges of N4.6 billion fraud was adjourned till January 24 by the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday.

Mr Fani-Kayode says he was granted bail on self-recognition by the EFCC.