
The head of Nigeria’s stock exchange regulator, Arunmah Oteh, has been suspended pending an investigation into allegations of malpractice.
The decision of the regulator’s board comes after a parliamentary committee recommended she be investigated.
Ms Oteh was given the job of cleaning up the stock exchange following a crisis in 2009 which saw stocks lose around 60% of their value in a year.
She has not officially been accused of any wrongdoing herself.
The BBC’s Will Ross in Lagos says this not the first time a probe into fraud in Nigeria has turned into a circus of accusations and counter-accusations as the hunter turns hunted. Continue reading “Nigeria Financial Regulator Arunmah Oteh Suspended Pending Invenstigation”

