Nigeria security forces detain suspended central bank chief

FILE PHOTO: Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele briefis the media during the MPC meeting in Abuja, Nigeria January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Abuja: Nigeria’s security services have detained the country’s suspended central bank chief as part of an investigation into his office, according to the national domestic security agency..

The arrest of Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele came shortly after new president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government suspended him following nearly a decade in the post.