Nigeria, Feb. 6 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the State Security Services (SSS) to investigate a court registrar, Nasiru Zubairu, and the second defendant, Daudu Sulaiman, over alleged tampering with evidence in an ongoing N10 billion fraud trial.

The order followed a disclosure by the judge, James Omotosho, that the registrar allegedly confessed to him that Mr Sulaiman approached him to delete certain WhatsApp messages from a mobile phone admitted as Exhibits N and O in the case.

In his ruling on Thursday, the judge played what he described as the registrar's confession in open court and directed Mr Zubairu to publicly narrate what transpired between him and the defendant.

"I have to...