Tag: Looted Funds

UK to return over $9.5m looted funds to Nigeria

Aminu Imam
UK to return looted funds

The Bailiwick of Jersey, in the United Kingdom (UK) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Government of Nigeria to return more than $9.5 million identified as proceeds of corruption, with the repatriated funds earmarked to support a major infrastructure project. His Majesty’s Attorney General for Jersey, Mark Temple KC, signed the MoU in December 2025, paving the way for the return of the funds to Nigeria. The development was disclosed in a statement issued by the British High Commission, through Stephen Odekunle, where it added that…

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Looted Funds: ‘Buhari recovered $390 million, €5.5m, £6.3m – AFG, Malami

Aminu Imam

The Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), says President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption posture and policies brought to the front burner issues of judicial reforms and independence, recovering several millions of looted funds. Malami disclosed this in Abuja during the 17th Edition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration’s Scorecard Series, on Thursday.  He said that adherence to the tenets of the rule of law, deepening democratic governance practices and strengthening institutional reforms across law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies were part of the cardinal policies at the…

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Buhari Has Recovered N1trn Nigeria’s Looted Funds – APC group

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (LAC), a voluntary think-tank group of the governing ALL Progressives Congress (APC), said the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has so far recovered close to N1 trillion worth of stolen funds and assets since assuming office in 2015. A statement issued in Abuja titled “President Buhari’s fight against corruption” signed by the quartets of Barr Ismail Ahmed – APC National Youth Leader, Lanre Issa-Onilu – former national publicity secretary of the APC, Tolu Ogunlesi – presidential media aide, and Salihu Moh Lukman, Director-General of the Progressives Governors’…

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