Uche Nnaji diploma case adjourned to 15 February 2027
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on P.M. News
Nigeria’s Federal High Court has adjourned to 15 February 2027 the hearing in a case pitting former minister Uche Nnaji against the University of Nigeria and others over allegations of diploma forgery. The adjournment followed the absence of a lawyer, P.M. News reports.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned to 15 February 2027 the hearing in a lawsuit filed by Uche Nnaji, Nigeria’s former minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, against the University of Nigeria in Nsukka and several officials. Judge Hauwa Yilwa set the date on Wednesday after the lawyer for the first defendant, the education minister, was absent from the hearing, P.M. News reports.
Nnaji’s lawyer, Akintola Makinde, said the education minister was not represented and referred to an application to regularise the court documents. Chris Uche, a lawyer representing the third to seventh defendants, recalled that part of an earlier application had been granted on 8 January, while another part remained to be resolved. The parties eventually agreed to adjourn the case for the hearing on 15 February 2027.
Uche Nnaji had filed the case following allegations of certificate forgery. He is seeking, among other things, an order allowing an action requiring the university and its officials to hand over his transcript and preventing them from altering his academic records while the case is being considered.
