Nigeria, June 24 -- The Nigerian government has released a list of six persons and three entities sanctioned for terrorism financing.

In a statement on Tuesday, Secretary of the Nigerian Sanctions Committee, Beatrice Jedy-Agba, said the list was approved and published on 18 June.

This comes a day after the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the sanctions on Mukhtar Adamu, and three bureau de change companies over their alleged involvement in financing the terrorist group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

OFAC, in its announcement on Tuesday, accused Mr Adamu, a Lagos-based bureau de change operator, of facilitating financial transactions and money transfers on behalf o...