West Africa’s FIUs Headquarter Now Resident In Nigeria

The Forum of West African Financial Intelligence Units has voted to unanimously relocate the headquarters of its forum to Abuja, Nigeria, from its temporary site in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

According to the chief media analyst of the agency, the movement will aide intelligence exchange among FIUs.

It was agreed that the Nigerian Financial intelligence unit (NFIU) will host the Headquarters temporarily and gradually nurture it to an independent regional Headquarters,”

Naija News understands that the work of the forum is to coordinate intelligence sharing among state parties of ECOWAS and members of the Chad Basin countries on money laundering, terrorism financing, financing of proliferation of weapons and all other criminal activities.