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The criminal prosecution of Nigerian musician Azeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, was adjourned by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday, May 30.
The Federal High Court's chief judge's fiat approval is still pending for the parties involved in the lawsuit, which is why the trial has been put on hold.
Fashola is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged cybercrime.
On May 20, 2019, Naira Marley was charged before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, to which she entered a not guilty plea.
He was given bail of two million Naira by Oweibo, along with two sureties in the same amount.
The EFCC was still calling witnesses when Oweibo was moved out of the Lagos division of the court. Therefore, Justice Isaac Dipeolu was given the case.
When the matter was brought up before Dipeolu on March 6, the attorneys for the prosecution and defense informed the judge that a pending fiat awaited the chief judge's reaction.
As a result, the judge postponed the case to Thursday, May 30, to receive the report.
Journalists found out on Thursday that the edict was still pending approval.
The trial's next phase does not yet have a set date.
The defendant allegedly committed the offenses on several days between November 26, 2018, and December 11, 2018, as well as on May 10, 2019, according to the EFCC.
The commission alleged that Fashola and his accomplices conspired to use different Access Bank automated teller machine cards to defraud their victims.
