Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday chaired a meeting over the $9.6 billion judgement against Nigeria.

The $9.6 billion dollar judgment debt against Nigeria by a British court was over a botched gas contract.

The meeting with Osinbajo started at his office around1.30pm.

Those at the meeting included the Finance, Budget and National planning Minister, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Silva.

Others are the Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Keyamo, Group Managing Director of NNPC, Melee Kyari,

Also at the meeting are the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

The meeting was still in progress at the time of filing this report.

Meanwhile, a coalition of civil society groups is protesting at the British High Commission in Abuja over the award of $9.6 billion to Process and Industrial Developments Ltd.

The CSOs are expected to stage similar protest at the Embassy of Ireland, Abuja.

The CSOs in a statement by its President, Etuk Bassey, described judgement as a “travesty to justice, disrespect to the sovereignty of the Nigerian government.”

The Nation