{"id":2078,"date":"2006-10-20T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2007-02-15T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:47:14","slug":"over-380-billion-missing-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/over-380-billion-missing-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $380 billion missing in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42220000\/jpg\/_42220598_ribadu_afp203b.jpg\"><img style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\"src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42220000\/jpg\/_42220598_ribadu_afp203b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6069230.stm\">BBC<\/A>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said.<br \/>\nNuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has &#8220;nothing much&#8221; to show for the missing money.<br \/>\nHe said the worst period for corruption was the 1980s and &#8217;90s, but currently two-thirds of governors are being investigated by Mr Ribadu&#8217;s agency.<br \/>\nNigeria is Africa&#8217;s biggest oil exporter but most people are poor.<br \/>\nThe country is regularly ranked as one of the most corrupt by graft watchdog transparency International.<br \/>\nPresident Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Ekiti State on Thursday after the governor was found guilty of siphoning state funds into personal bank accounts and receiving kickbacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said. Nuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has &#8220;nothing much&#8221; to show for the missing money. He said the worst period for corruption was the 1980s and &#8217;90s, but currently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/over-380-billion-missing-in-nigeria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over $380 billion missing in Nigeria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}