Court grants Usman permission to travel to US for medical care

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted former Minister of Finance, Mrs Nenadi Usman, permission to travel to the United States for medical care.

According to Justice Rilwan Aikawa, Usman’s passport should be released to her to travel to the US for medical care as she is billed to travel on 18 December, 2017.

The court ordered her to be present for trial on 31 January, 2018 when the case would come up.

The former minister is facing trial along with former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and two others – Danjuma Yusuf and Joint Trust Dimensions Nigeria Limited – on 17 counts bordering on an alleged N4.9 billion fraud, Channels Tv reports.