A court in Kaduna (a northern Nigerian state) has deferred its ruling on a bail application by former governor Nasir El-Rufai, ordering him to remain in the custody of Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the ICPC, which has held him since February. The Kaduna State High Court set 1–4 June for trial proceedings, leaving El-Rufai's release uncertain despite a separate Federal High Court granting him bail of N200 million last week in a related case. El-Rufai, who governed Kaduna State from 2015 to 2023, faces a total of 19 corruption charges across two courts, including allegations of fraudulently inflated severance payments and receiving millions of dollars in suspected corrupt funds; he has denied all charges and described the prosecution as politically motivated.