Justice Minister Abubakar Malami said the recovery of the funds “further consolidates” the government’s record on repatriating stolen money, citing an earlier deal with Switzerland that saw $322 million returned in 2018.
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The compensation will be paid as part of the transitional government’s effort to remove Sudan from the US terrorism list.
The old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees” but the latter has now been reviewed downwards by Nigeria’s immigration authorities.
The Trump administration is preventing further legal immigration from Nigeria, citing concerns about the country’s security standards, as well as heightened terrorist threats.
Fears that the United States may withdraw all its troops from Africa are unfounded, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday. Esper said the United…
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry announced in the statement that the three countries’ delegations will return to Washington, in a period to be determined later.
The islands have been at the centre of a decades-long dispute over Britain’s decision to separate them from Mauritius in 1965