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Nigeria's top judge charged with bribery

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Nigeria's top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed Saturday.

Danladi Umar was accused by the country's anti-graft body EFCC of demanding 10 million naira (22,300 euros; $27,800) from a suspect "for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge", according to court papers seen by AFP.

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