Nigeria

Babachir Lawal, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has been cleared of N544M in contract fraud charges brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), thanks to a ruling from the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that nearly 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor, or 63 percent of the country’s population.

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, has stated that he has lived with diabetes for forty years and that although the disease is incurable, it can be managed.