Nigeria: President Buhari's Fight to Recover Nigeria's Stolen Assets

For quite some time now, Nigeria has been intensifying efforts to recover stolen state assets from abroad. President Muhammadu Buhari's government has won some recent battles -- but it is fighting a losing war.

Upon assuming the presidency in 2015, Muhammadu Buhari declared his goal of putting an end to graft in Nigeria. But his government has so far had mixed results. Nigeria has even slipped on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index -- from the 136th place when Buhari was inaugurated to 148th out of the 180 countries surveyed.

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