Nigeria, July 25 -- A new judge has taken over the N4 billion money laundering trial of former Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano.

The trial case came up before the new judge, Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday. But the judge postponed Mr Obiano's case having spent the day attending to other matters.

Mr Umar rescheduled the hearing for 25 November.

The defendant is expected to take a fresh plea and the prosecution witnesses that already testified would have to be reinvited.

The case was reassigned to Mr Umar after the previous trial judge, Inyang Ekwo of the same Abuja division of the court was placed under a one-year suspension in April by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for misconduct.

Before the san...