Nigeria's Missing Billions and Trillions

From NigeriansTalk Thu Dec 20 2012, 09:11:05

It used to be tens of millions of naira and occasionally, hundreds of millions of naira and when a corruption incident amounting to a billion naira was mentioned, we were stunned, disgusted and spoke about it intensely for weeks. Now misappropriation of public funds in Nigeria is recorded in billions and trillions of naira such that cases involving mere millions [...]

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