Nigeria, Oct. 6 -- The legal team of the embattled Minister of Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, who is at the centre of a major certificate forgery scandal, fumed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday over PREMIUM TIMES investigative reportage of the matter.

Mr Nnaji's lead lawyer, Sebastian Hon, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), pointed to this newspaper's investigation during the court's first hearing session on the civil suit regarding the minister's academic records at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

The PREMIUM TIMES report published on Saturday revealed that Mr Nnaji forged the UNN and national youth service certificates he submitted to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian Senate for his appointment as a min...