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Goodluck Jonathan, Allison-Madueke, Okonjo-Iweala Sued over Fuel Subsidy Payments

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory have  been asked to give an order compelling President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately take out the subsidy...

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Kanene Okonjo: Abductors Insist on Speaking With Minister

Kidnappers  of Professor Kanene Okonjo, mother of the coordinating Minister for Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, yesterday, from their hideout, insisted...

NNPC Says CBN is the owner of secret oil foreign account

AS controversy over a secret oil proceeds account continued yesterday, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) fingered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as operator of the account. The corporation’s Group Executive Director (Finance), Mr. Bernard Otti told the Joint Senate Committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Appropriation and Finance investigating...

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FG begins probe of N250bn subsidy arrears

The Technical Committee on Payment of Fuel Subsidies which was constituted by the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has directed oil marketers...

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Nigeria: N26bn Police Pension funds traced to FirstBank, Fidelity, UBA, others

*Senate summons two civil servants over N140m By Henry Umoru & Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA - Senate Joint Committee on Establishment, States and Local Governments,...

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World Bank Update: Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala congratulate Kim

The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has congratulated the World Bank president elect, Mr. Jim Yong...

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Nigeria: NLC says no to reversal of N18, 000 minimum wage

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will not accept the reversal of the N18, 000 minimum wage or cut in salaries under the pretext of dwindling state...

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World Bank Decision Due Today

A successor to the out-going President of the World Bank, Mr. Robert Zoellick, will emerge Monday between 5pm and 7pm (12 noon and 2pm Washington DC time),...

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World Bank Presidency Update: Ocampo steps down for Okonjo-Iweala

A former Colombian Finance Minister, Jose Antonio Ocampo, has withdrawn his candidacy from the race for the World Bank presidency to support Nigeria’s...

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WORLD BANK PRESIDENCY: STRAW POLL HOLDS FRIDAY

Africans at home and in diaspora are in contemplative mood just as the World Bank board of directors holds a straw poll Friday to decide the new president...

NIGERIA’S EXCESS CRUDE ACCOUNT “SERIOUSLY DEPLETED” – OKONJO-IWEALA

Nigeria’s Finance Minister and World Bank Presidential aspirant, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has warned that Nigeria faces a serious threat of grave economic...

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World Bank: US pick for World Bank presidency takes case to Board Directors

Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, yesterday, told the bank’s board of directors that he would not hesitate to question the status...