Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned for a ruling on a no-case submission filed by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele seeking the dismissal of his $6.23 million fraud charges midway into trial.

Mr Emefiele filed the no-case submission after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) closed its case in July, maintaining that the prosecution's evidence was too weak to warrant him entering a defence.

At Tuesday's hearing, his lawyer, Matthew Burkaa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said his client had no case to answer and urged the court to dismiss the charges.

But the prosecution led by Rotimi Oyedepo, a SAN and director of public prosecutions of the feder...