The #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest on Monday paralysed activities at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
One of the cases that suffered a setback as a result of the protest was one involving Omoeyele Sowore, the Sahara Reporters publisher, and other organisers of the demonstration.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that all of the about 13 courtrooms in the high-rise court complex were under lock and key when this reporter got access into the premises at about 9:30 a.m.
Although very few court workers, lawyers, litigants and private guards of the court were seen on the premises, no judge was sighted.
There were heavy security deployments with water cannons in and around the intersection between Gana Street and Shehu Shagari Way by Nicon Hilton Hotel, the p
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