Nigeria seizes $37m property of ex-minister
(bbc.com/news) — A court in Nigeria has ordered the temporary seizure of property worth $37.5m (£29m) belonging to former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke on the suspicion that it was bought with ill-gotten money, the AFP news agency reports.
The seizure is part of a series of cases brought by the country’s anti-graft agency, it adds.
AFP says that the property is an apartment block on the upmarket Banana Island in Lagos.
Ms Alison-Madueke is currently on bail in London where she was arrested on corruption allegations.
She was oil minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan from 2010 to 2015.
By Paul Bakibinga and Damian Zane