Nigeria: Funding Nigerians' Education Abroad With Illicit Funds

25 February 2021

IT has long been public knowledge that most occupants of political offices in Nigeria send their children to schools abroad due to the virtual collapse of quality education in Nigeria.

A non-resident scholar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Matthew Page (who is described as "a Nigerian"), in a study titled: "West African Elites' Spending on UK Schools and Universities: A Closer Look", has accused Nigeria's politically-exposed persons, PEPs, of perpetrating money laundering by using the education of their children and wards abroad as a conduit pipe.

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