Nigeria files 20 new charges against suspended central bank chief | News

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Emefiele who made an unprecedented run for the Nigerian presidency last year, has been held in detention by the secret police since June 10.

Nigerian prosecutors have filed a 20-count indictment against suspended and detained central bank governor Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday, one of them accusing him of “conferring unlawful advantages”, a government lawyer says.

President Bola Tinubu, who has embarked on the boldest reforms in Africa’s biggest economy in more than a decade, has launched a probe of the central bank under Emefiele after criticising its policies at his inauguration in…



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