Corruption in Nigeria

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“Coffee or coke, Monsieur,” repeated the blonde attendant as Jide peered into her emerald green eyes. She was smiling and very pretty. Just the sight Jide liked being awakened to.

“Coffee, please.”

At the peak of the subsidy fraud, the Nigerian state said it could not fund it anymore, arguing that its payment was taking a huge amount of monies from the federation account, thereby impeding the state’s ability to fund core infrastructures.