Nigeria: The Making of a Deal

Can economic and social justice ever be realised together, or is it acceptable to sacrifice one for the other? For those who live outside of Africa, the routine of corruption in government can be difficult to comprehend, but for those Africans living under continual corruption and in ongoing poverty, is the money all that matters? After more than three years of legal wrangling that yielded little in the way of results, the Nigerian Federal Government has finally achieved a major breakthrough in its efforts to recoup a substantial sum of the country's money looted by the late General Sani Abacha and stored in Swiss bank accounts.