British broadcaster Lowri Turner has questioned the United Kingdom’s decision to provide Nigeria with £136 million in annual aid, arguing that the country has wealthy individuals and loses billions of dollars to corruption.
Turner made the comments during a discussion on foreign aid with Labour MP Danny Beales on The Matt Allwright Show on Channel 5, broadcast on October 16, 2026.
She argued that Nigeria’s wealthy population and the alleged scale of corruption raise questions about the need for British aid, adding that foreign assistance could encourage corruption and make recipient countries dependent on donor nations.
“We are currently giving Nigeria £136 million a year, right? They have eight and a half thousand millionaires there, and they lose approximately 15 billion dollars a year in corruption. So we are giving money to a country that already has a great number of very wealthy people in it, and also this money will be fuelling the corruption. So I don’t think we should be giving”
She added, “I just thought, look at one country. That’s one example of it. There’s no doubt that aid funnels corruption in certain countries. It also infantilises them”
She concluded saying, “I think if you ask some people in African countries, they say, ‘We don’t want white saviour complex, thank you very much. We want actually to be able to build a road and have vaccinations.’”
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