A Nigerian lawmaker who was suspended after accusing the head of the upper house of sexual harassment, was denied entry into parliament on Tuesday despite a court ruling for her reinstatement.

Television channels showed security forces and armed police preventing Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from entering the complex in the federal capital Abuja.

Akpoti-Uduaghan in February accused the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, of making unwanted sexual advances.

She was then suspended for six months by a Senate committee.