Nigeria, July 7 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja postponed on Tuesday proceedings in the trial of the alleged coup plotters as a result of disputes over the interpretation of the Hausa testimony of a defendant.

Judge Joyce Abdulmalik adjourned the proceedings until 20 July following the repeated complaint of defence lawyer Sanusi Musa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), that interpreters were not accurately translating the testimony of the sixth defendant, Abdulkadir Sani.

Mr Sani is challenging the voluntariness of his statement that the prosecution seeks to tender as evidence.

The judge discharged Mr Shani and directed the parties to produce a neutral interpreter from the defendant's exact linguistic background, rather than relyin...