Alleged forgery: Ex-minister, Nnaji gets court permission to travel abroad for medical care

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja has granted support to the erstwhile curate of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, to question overseas for aesculapian treatment.

Consequently, the justice on Monday ordered that the planetary passport of erstwhile curate beryllium released to him to alteration him undertake the trip.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, connected July 13, arraigned Nnaji connected a six-count complaint bordering connected alleged certificate forgery, mendacious accusation and corruption.

Nnaji, 63, pleaded not blameworthy to the complaint aft helium was arraigned earlier the court.

According to the complaint marked FHC/ABJ/CR/391/2026, the ICPC alleged that betwixt August 2023 and October 2025, portion serving arsenic minister, Nnaji received N29,578,466.67 arsenic wage and allowances, which the committee described arsenic “proceeds of unlawful acts, contrary to the provisions of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022″.In the 2nd count, the anti-graft bureau accused the erstwhile curate of utilizing his bureau to confer a corr...