UK UNIVERSITIES COMPLICIT IN NIGERIAN CORRUPTION, SAYS REPORT
February 1st, 2021
UK colleges and universities are complicit in Nigerian corruption and money laundering, according to a report commissioned by British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, from West Africa expert, Matthew Page. Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (for whom Page is a non-resident scholar), ‘West African Elites’ Spending on UK Schools and Universities: A Closer Look’ (1), points to “unexplained wealth” used to pay British university and boarding school fees way above the salary levels of prominent politically exposed ...
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