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A Nigerian court has awarded about $300,000 (\u00a3180,000) in damages to suspended central bank chief Lamido Sanusi after he filed a harassment case against the government.<\/p>\n

The court also ordered that Mr Sanusi be given back his passport, and he should not be detained unlawfully.<\/p>\n

He was briefly detained in February, soon after his suspension.<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan suspended him after he claimed that $20bn in oil revenue had gone missing.<\/p>\n

Mr Sanusi’s passport was seized on 20 February at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria’s main city.<\/p>\n

The Lagos High Court restrained the government from arresting, detaining or harassing him,\u00a0Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Jonathan says Mr Sanusi was suspended, pending the outcome of an investigation into “financial recklessness and misconduct” at the central bank.<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s state oil firm has denied failing to account for the money, saying Mr Sanusi’s claim was “unsubstantiated”.<\/p>\n

Mr Sanusi is widely respected after undertaking reforms to the banking sector since his appointment in 2009.<\/p>\n

He was named central bank governor of the year for 2010 by Banker magazine.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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