Saturday, July 30, 2005

Corruption: Nigeria to hold anti spam seminar

Nigeria will host a national seminar to discuss spam and cybercrime solutions.

The event is being held at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja.

Jonathan Rusch, the U.S. Department of Justice's special counsel for fraud prevention will be a keynote speaker at the four day event, (commences Aug 6).

Anyone interested in Nigeria's fight against corruption will find the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission website of interest.
Two articles of particular interest are -

Graft and foreign support

Debt relief and Nigeria's anti-graft war (3).
This article discusses the recent report by the United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO) indicating that between 1990 and 2000 alone, about $107 billion Nigerian money had been illegally siphoned and stashed in private foreign accounts.