Nigeria, Sept. 23 -- The police on Tuesday fired teargas at Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan's supporters, who had gathered at the National Assembly to welcome back from a six-month Senate suspension.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan and her supporters marched from the FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, where she appeared earlier in the morning for a criminal defamation case against her, to the National Assembly.

The supporters, who were mostly people from her constituency in Kogi State, included human rights activist Aisha Yesufu.

They departed the court in Maitama at about 12.00 p.m., waving the Nigerian flag and chanting solidarity songs to the beats of drummers who were part of the procession from the court to the National Assembly....