{"id":70255,"date":"2025-01-10T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70255"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:22:50","slug":"us-to-return-52-8-million-in-seized-assets-linked-to-nigerias-former-oil-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/us-to-return-52-8-million-in-seized-assets-linked-to-nigerias-former-oil-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"US to return $52.8 million in seized assets linked to Nigeria&#8217;s former oil minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BB1rfsr0.img?w=768&amp;h=508&amp;m=6&amp;x=506&amp;y=270&amp;s=216&amp;d=216\" alt=\"Nigeria Repatriation Funds\" width=\"558\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Nigeria<\/a> as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/us-to-return-52-8-million-in-seized-assets-linked-to-nigeria-s-former-oil-minister\/ar-BB1rfB83?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=f6fd57beed904c0ca1ff12f41a732fd4&amp;ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"intra-article-module\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;intraArticle&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13}\">\n<div class=\"articlePageIntraArticleFullWidth ad-slot-placeholder left-image-intra-ad\" data-ad-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"intra-article-ad-full left-image-intra-ad\">\n<div class=\"left-image-intra-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to\u00a0Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/diezani2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70256,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255\/revisions\/70256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}