Nigeria, July 1 -- The FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, set Thursday for ruling on an application by senior lawyer Mike Ozekhome to travel to the United Kingdom on health grounds.

This came after Mr Ozekhome, who is facing forgery and impersonation charges, secured the agreement of the prosecution team not to oppose the request to travel.

Trial judge Chizoba Oji ordered the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to produce Mr Ozekhome's passport and that of his co-defendant after it emerged during Tuesday's proceedings that the documents had not been deposited at the court's registry.

It came to the judge's knowledge on Tuesday that the prosecution (office of the AGF) had withheld and failed to deposit the ...