Nigeria's Federal High Court on Wednesday charged a former oil minister with money-laundering in an election bribery scandal over efforts to ensure former President Goodluck Jonathan won the 2015 election. Diezani Allison-Madueke is the first minister from Jonathan's Cabinet to be formally charged. Prosecutors allege that she paid bribes totaling 264 million naira (nearly $1.4 million at the time) to three electoral officials the day before the March 2015 elections. A former national security adviser has told the court that $2.1 billion was diverted from the war on Boko Haram Islamic extremists for bribes to ensure Jonathan won. Judge Mohammed Idris granted bail of 50 million naira to the other two accused electoral officials, Yisa Olarenwaju and Tijani Bashir, and ordered them to surrender their passports.

Source: ABC News April 05, 2017 16:45 UTC