Nigeria, Feb. 10 -- A contention over subpoena, a court document summoning a witness to appear in a case, dominated Tuesday's session of the former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello's alleged N110 billion fraud trial at the FCT High Court in Abuja.

The defence's insistence on seeing the physical copy of the subpoena, the basis upon which the 10th prosecution witness apppeared in court on Tuesday, sparked a heated argument with the prosecution, characterising a bulk of the day's proceedings.

Mr Bello's lawyer, Paul Daudu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said, "Without the subpoena, the authority of this witness cannot stand; what we would have would be hearsay."

But Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)'s prosecution lawyer...