National Gallery of Graft: How former DG, others misappropriated funds National Gallery of Graft: How former DG, others misappropriated funds
Additional report by Damilola Ojetunde and Samad Uthman.
SOMETIME in November, a Nigerian Professor of Art History, Moyo Okediji, announced on Facebook that he was building an art gallery in Austin, Texas, United States.
He wrote that the gallery is nearing completion and would hopefully be ready by January 2021. That is a timeline of about three months
Eight years earlier, the National
Gallery of Art, an agency under the Ministry of Information and Culture, made a similar announcement to build galleries in Taraba, Niger, Anambra, and Imo states. To date, none of the galleries are near completion, let alone open for business.
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