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Adio wryly recalls how, as an impressionable 10-year-old, he idolized a Nigerian television journalist who routinely put the country’s politicians in the hot seat...
Swiss banks will be ordered to return $535 million of embezzled money to Nigeria. The money was stashed in Switzerland by the African state's former military ruler, General Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has agreed to drop criminal proceedings against the family of the late dictator and allow them to retain $100 million of the estimated $3 billion that Abacha was alleged to have looted during his five-year rule. Nigeria will eventually recover more than $1 billion from banks around the world...
NIGERIA Code of Conduct African leaders sought to bolster international investment on the continent by implementing a peer-review system to monitor economic reform and good governance. Meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, representatives of 19 countries agreed on eight draft codes of conduct to be monitored by an independent African body. The aim is to ensure Africa keeps its side of the deal to attract some $64 billion a year under a proposed "Marshall Plan" for Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD...
...year-old Nigerian and have often viewed celebrities' "concern" for Africa with annoyance. My reaction to Bono was different; I was impressed. He is right in advocating not just debt relief but also the lowering of trade restrictions on African countries. What Africa needs is not gifts of fish but fair access to the fishing pond. AMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Mansfield, Conn...
...investment banking chief at CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON won't be voted Mr. Popularity anytime soon. In his first staff meeting since being plucked from the firm's energy group, the native Nigerian told senior execs they are the focus of a new round of job cuts that will be "swift and severe." As the bank moves to cut costs after posting its first unprofitable quarter since 1997, Ogunlesi, 48, also advocated the use of taxis over limos...