Nigeria, May 14 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 27 June to deliver judgement on Kogi central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan's suit challenging her six-month suspension from the Senate.

The judge, Binta Nyako, on Tuesday, scheduled the case for judgement after all parties, through their respective lawyers, adopted their respective filings and made closing arguments.

Announcing her plan after listening to the lawyers, the judge said her judgement would address other ancillary matters, which arose in the intervening period between the filing and the final hearing of the suit.

She said the judgment would decide on the counter-contempt charges that arose in the case and the preliminary objection filed by all the defendants, in...