ABUJA – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military’s capability to fight militant Islamists. Mr Jonathan wrote to parliament, asking for the expenditure to be approved. Nigeria has a military budget of about $6.3bn a year but large sums are lost to corruption, critics say. Mr Jonathan…
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