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Nigeria: Phone Tapping Charges – Court Postpones El-Rufai’s Bail Hearing, Orders His Remand

Nigeria: Phone Tapping Charges – Court Postpones El-Rufai’s Bail Hearing, Orders His Remand

The SSS arraigned Mr El-Rufai on Thursday on charges of tapping National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu’s phone call.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, postponed the hearing of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s bail application, following his arraignment on phone tapping charges.

The judge, Joyce Abdulmalik, set 18 May for the hearing.

She ordered the former governor remanded in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS), the prosecuting agency, pending the bail…

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