Nigeria, June 24 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered an investigation into an alleged leaked video which has stirred controversy in the trial of five suspects charged with being being part of last year's failed plot to topple President Bola Tinubu's administration.

Judge Joyce Abdulmalik made the order following claims by prosecution lawyer Rotimi Oyedepo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who is the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), that the video recording of one of the defendant's statements had appeared on social media, contrary to an earlier court order.

He said he watched the video on the page of social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM).

He described the developmen...