As the assets confiscation hearing of the former Delta State Governor entered its final day, the Judge, His Honour Anthony Pitts, has rebuffed attempts by the British Crown prosecution to change the case upon which the confiscation proceedings have been built from the onset. Crown Prosecutor, Sasha Wass, in her […]
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Plane crash near Lagos airport kills 15
* Air disasters common in Africa’s 2nd biggest economy * Dana Air crash last year killed 163 * Family was on way to funeral with coffin – reports Fifteen people were killed when an Embraer passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off just outside Lagos airport’s domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian […]
Insight: Pre-electoral feuding threatens Nigeria’s economy
In Nigeria, as elsewhere, foreign exchange markets can be a barometer of internal strife, so when central bank governor Lamido Sanusi noticed a surge in dollar demand at forex bureaux in July, he feared something was amiss. The bank found tens of billions of naira was traded for dollars in […]
