(July 2, 2002) According to the enhanced measures, intending visitors to the detainees are made to apply in writing along with two passport-sized photographs.

(June 26, 2002) The IMF, which agreed with Nigeria to end formal ties earlier this year, has declined to confirm a claim by Olusegun Obasanjo, the country’s president, that the relationship between the two parties would resume in October.

(June 26, 2002) Attorney-General of the Federation yesterday stalled hearing of the suit against the Federal Government on moves to retrieve alleged looted money stashed in foreign accounts by the Abacha family.

(June 25, 2002) The Director-General of the National Centre for Economic Management and Administration (NCEMA), Prof. Mike Obadan, yesterday stated that government’s action to resume ties with the IMF was in the public interest.

(June 25, 2002) The International Monetary Fund’s strained relationship with Nigeria has taken a bizarre turn after an apparent disagreement over a speech made in Washington last week by Olusegun Obasanjo, the country’s president.

(June 18, 2002) The panel of inquiry set up by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the allegation of bribery and corruption against Justice Augustine Ade-Alabi, will resume sitting four months after it commenced hearing on the matter.

(June 17, 2002) The presidency has denied that N11.7 billion of the total amount recovered from friends and family of late head of state, General Sani Abacha, was not paid into the looted fund account and is therefore missing.

(June 14, 2002) Corrupt African leaders have stolen at least $140bn (£95bn) from their people in the decades since independence, says the Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

(May 30, 2002) The revelations made by President Olusegun Obasanjo on his deal with the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on the recovery of monies looted by Abacha while in office has elicited sundry responses.

(May 23, 2002) For the first time in almost three years, President Olusegun Obasanjo has spoken emphatically about the outcome of his administration’s efforts at recovering the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha.

(April 17, 2002) The nigerian authorities will discontinue the criminal proceedings against the persons participating in the settlement, and delete their names from the requests for judicial assistance submitted to foreign countries.

(March 11, 2002) Two inescapable truths came out of the Federal Govern-ment’s decision last week to dump the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme which had been in place since July last year.

(February 15, 2002) EDO-members stormed the State House of Assembly yesterday, demanding for an investigation into how a loan of $120m from the African Development Bank (ADB) for urban water supply disappeared.

(December 10, 2001) The Paris Club of Creditors, to which Nigeria owes about $22bn, has rescheduled the repayment over 18 years good news for a country with external debt totalling about $28bn.

(May 17, 2001) Nigeria is to seek more substantive debt relief from the Paris Club of private sector creditors, according to Philip Asiodu, Chief Economic Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo.