LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 a month for the last two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption starving the oil-rich West African nation of much needed funds, authorities said Friday.
The baby was one of many so-called “ghost workers” found to be getting salaries without performing a job, said Garba Gajam, the attorney general of Zamfara state.
 
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