Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- The Nigerian government has filed cybercrime charges against former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, over the alleged unlawful interception of the phone communications of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu.

The case marked FHC/ABJ/CR/99/2026 was filed on Monday, barely three days after Mr El-Rufai said during a live interview on Arise TV that the NSA's phone conversation was intercepted, and that he heard the NSA directing security operatives to detain him.

"The NSA's call was tapped. They do that to our calls too, and we heard him saying they should arrest me," Mr El-Rufai claimed during the TV programme on Friday.

Mr El-Rufai said the NSA's order was behind t...