Nigeria, Nov. 4 -- The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja on Tuesday rejected a request to throw out trespass charges against a realtor, a lawyer, and a police officer.

Judge Samira Bature refused the defendants' application to strike out the charges on grounds of prosecution's absence from Tuesday's proceedings.

Tuesday's adjournment was the seventh time the case had been adjourned, stalling the arraignment of the defendants.

In 2023, the federal government charged the defendants - Cecil Osakwe, a property developer, Victor Giwa, a lawyer, and Edith Erhunmwuuse, a police officer- with nine counts of mischief, trespass, and tampering with properties belonging to one Asabe Waziri.

According to the charges, the defendan...