Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- A court-ordered forensic examination of a phone central to the fraud trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele has stalled in Lagos.

Both the prosecution and Mr Emefiele's defence team traded accusations at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Tuesday over the botched exercise.

Mr Emefiele's lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said the exercise could not proceed because the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) repeatedly obstructed efforts to access the device, an iPhone 12.

But EFCC's prosecution lawyer, Oyedepo Rotimi, also a SAN, blamed the setback on the defence's engagement of an unqualified expert.

"The defence's expert conducted part ...