Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The Nigerian government released $104 million (N31.8 billion) in the August/September 2018 to September/October 2019 payment cycle for the delivery of social investment programmes across the country.

The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais, said this in her keynote address on Monday at a two-day Experts' Training and Advocacy on Tracing and Recovery of Illicit Funds and Assets organised by the Human Environmental Development Agenda HEDA, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

She said $76,538,530 of the money was from the Abacha loot while $27,099,028 was an International Development Association (IDA) credit.

She was quoted in a release signed by the communication manager of the programme, J...