By Adriel Kasonta | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-05-12 08:57 Share CLOSE Participants walk around the Boao Forum for Asia International Conference Center in Boao, South China s Hainan province, April 18, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
In April, the Boao Forum for Asia successfully held its annual conference in Hainan province after last year s conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
With the theme A World in Change: Join Hands to Strengthen Global Governance and Advance Belt and Road Initiative Cooperation , this year s conference emphasized the formation of Hainan s free trade port, the reform of the World Trade Organization, measures to ensure global food security, and strategies to boost the development of small businesses and strengthen trade ties amid the pandemic.
Says she’s forfeited 80 property valued at $80m to FG
New chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, said yesterday that the commission has recovered a whopping $153 million from former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison Madueke, who has been staying in Britain since leaving office in 2015.
Beyond the amount recovered from the former oil minister, no fewer than 80 choice property valued at $80 million have also been seized from her and handed over to the federal government.
Bawa, who who disclosed this, also served a notice that he was ready to relinquish his position if anyone brought pressure on him to do what was not legal in the discharge of his duties. But he was quick to add that bringing the former minister to justice was still far from reality, given the fact that she was out of Nigeria’s jurisdiction and the challenges associated with bringing her home to face justice.