Nigeria, May 4 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed 8 May for ruling on the no-case submission filed by activist Omoyele Sowore in his cyberbullying trial over calling President Bola Tinubu a "criminal".

Judge Muhammed Umar fixed the date after lawyers for Mr Sowore and the State Security Service (SSS) adopted their final written addresses.

Mr Sowore's lawyer, Marshal Abubakar, told the court that the prosecution failed to link his client to the alleged offences.

Moving the no-case submission, filed on 21 April, he argued that the evidence presented did not establish "a prima facie case against the defendant "

"Upon the review of the evidence led by the prosecution, no case has been disclosed against him to warrant him t...