Nigeria: Govt Earmarks $322M Abacha Loot for Social Programmes

The federal government says the $322.52 million Abacha loot recovered recently from the Swiss government would be ploughed into its national social safety net programmes.

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, said this during a joint press briefing on Sunday at the end of the 2018 International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC, United States.

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