Nigeria, April 5 -- The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, on Friday, scheduled 15 May for the trial of a former Deputy Director of Highways, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Augustine Olowoniyan, and a surveyor at the Department of Highways and Planning, Sulaiman Muhammed.

According to a press statement released by the prosecuting agency - the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) - on Friday, the trial judge, Jude Onwuegbuzie, picked the trial date after granting bail to the defendants.

Messrs Olowoniyan and Muhammed are facing three charges of diversion and misappropriation of funds amounting to N1.9 billion (N1,936,961,649).

The anti-graft agency accused them of siphoning, between 4 March 2019...