New Allegations of Terror Funding By Nigeria Central Bank Chief Nigeria
reports that the documents provide for the first time, the missing details of the terrorism financing allegation which the SSS levelled against the Central Bank governor.
In December 2022 Justice M. A. Hassan of a High Court in Abuja, restrained the Department of State Services and four others from arresting or detaining the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele over alleged trumped up charges bordering on terrorism financing,
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