Nigeria, April 2 -- An EFCC detective told the FCT High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that the redesigned currency notes the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) produced in late 2022 were not the versions then-President Muhammadu Buhari approved.

Chinedu Eneanya said this as the seventh prosecution witness in the trial of the then-CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, who is facing prosecution for alleged illegal redesign of the currency notes.

"The president (former President Muhammadu Buhari) approved on the 11th page (of a CBN memo issued by Mr Emefiele) and directed that the design be done locally.

"However, investigation showed that what was eventually produced was not what was presented to the president," he said under cross-examination by Mr E...