DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates, according to a joint statement by Nigeria's minister of justice and the United States government.

A key figure in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, she also served as the first female president of the oil exporters group Opec. Her time as Nigeria's minister of petroleum resources began in 2010 and ended in 2015. She previously ...

The United States announced Friday that it would be returning USD 52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates,

The US will return USD 52.8 million linked to former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke as part of a corruption investigation.