Court adjourns Uche Nnaji’s certificate forgery suit till February 2027

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has adjourned the suit filed by erstwhile Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, against the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, and others, until February 15, 2027.

Justice Hauwa Yilwa fixed the day connected Wednesday pursuing the lack of counsel to the archetypal respondent, the Minister of Education.

Nnaji instituted the suit pursuing allegations of certificate forgery levelled against him.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, counsel to the erstwhile minister, Akintola Makinde, SAN, informed the tribunal that the archetypal responsive was not represented.

Makinde besides drew the court’s attraction to a pending question seeking to regularize processes filed successful the matter, noting that proceeding notices had been served connected the parties.

However, Chris Uche, SAN, who represented the 3rd to seventh respondents, recalled that the tribunal had, connected January 8, granted portion of an earlier exertion seeking to regularize their processes, portion the 2nd supplication remained outstanding.

Uche urged the tribunal to deem the applicable processes arsenic duly served.

In her response, Justice Yilwa acknowledged that she had granted the archetypal supplication but was yet to regularisation connected the 2nd relief. Uche subsequently assured the tribunal that the outstanding issues would beryllium addressed administrativ...