Nigeria

Corruption: Nigeria cancels 50,000 "ghost-officials" the salary. Tens of thousands of Nigerians get salary from the state even though they never appear to work. Due to the cancellations, the state budget saves about 630 million euros each year in fraudulent wage expenses.

Rolls-Royce plc, Britain’s leading manufacturing multinational, hired a network of agents to help it land lucrative contracts in at least 12 different countries around the world, sometimes allegedly using bribe.

Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke was arrested in London on Friday, a source from Nigeria's presidency circle and another with links to her family said.Alison-Madueke was minister from 2010 until May 2015 under former president Goodluck Jonathan, who was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari at the election in March.Buhari took office in May promising to root out Corruption in Africa's most populous nation where few benefit from the country's enormous energy resources.

Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced that a Tax Amnesty is now in operation for undeclared tax liabilities for the three years from 2013 to 2015. To avoid the payment of tax penalties and interest for those years, taxpayers must declare their tax dues by November 24, 2016.

Nigeria demands 11.4 billion of various oil companies, including Chevron, Eni and Shell, reportedly because of fraud with waybills. Therewith suspicions about the existence of a mega fraud in commodity trading by 'trade misinvoicing' are becoming stronger. The big players are suspected of smuggling 57 million barrels of oil, about 9.3 billion liters, out of Nigeria.

Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Allison-Madueke was arrested and the police found 700 million USD in one of her counsellor's flat. She is charged with bribery and money laundering.

British Prime Minister told MPs that Nigeria and Afghanistan have taken "remarkable steps forward" on corruption

Italian prosecutors investigate Royal Dutch Shell over acquisition of a Nigerian oil field.