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After months of speculation, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has sacked half his cabinet but retained several of his old associates and surprisingly kept on a few of the worst-performing ministers, presumably for political reasons. Among the survivors are Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman, formerly a director of the Nigerian Central Bank under Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, who remains central to economic strategy. Yet on many day-to-day decisions, Usman is outflanked by the President's Economic Advisor, Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, who was Finance Commissioner of Katsina State when Yar'Adua was State Governor....

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Shamsudeen Usman, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ojo Madueke, Sani Abacha, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Michael Aondoakaa, Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, Rilwanu Lukman, Odein Ajumogbobia, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Alison Madueke

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