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Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research and advocacy organization, in its newly released report, has said that out of the 20 biggest exporters of illicit financial flows for decades, Nigeria occupies the 7th position with $19.66 billion (N3.047trn). It said Nigeria, termed the 7th biggest money laundering country in the world, exported...
Abuja – A total of 74 Nigerian students will be travelling to Russia, China and Cuba for post-graduate and first degree studies in different fields. The students bagged the scholarships under the Bilateral Educational Agreement between Nigeria and 21 other foreign countries. The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, who disclosed this at the orientation...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Nigeria on Thursday of potential damage to bilateral relations and urged action against a court decision that stripped the world’s largest aluminium producer, Russia’s Rusal, of its core African asset. Nigeria’s supreme court ordered last week that Rusal, which owns 85 percent of the formerly state-run Aluminium Smelter...
