Former Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said there was a need for the President to appoint substantive ministers who could take key decisions...
On the eve of the ECOWAS summit he received a Nigerian emissary the former Emir of Kano and central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi for an informal discussion...
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He was also accused of taking bribes to recommend the removal of Emefiele's predecessor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who was eventually dismissed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 (AC Vol 55 No 13 Sanusi's political throne)...
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In 2014 President Jonathan was able to suspend Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on the grounds of numerous financial accusations against him without the Senate supermajority required for his removal from office...
For Emefiele to be formally suspended or sacked as former CBN governor Lamido Sanusi was during Goodluck Jonathan's administration there would have to be a formal investigation perhaps into his management of foreign exchange trading or accusations of conflict of interests in his relations with commercial and investment banks...
His successor as governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi won several international awards but was pushed out of the post by President Goodluck Jonathan for making allegations about grand corruption at the heart of government...
When President Goodluck Jonathan tried in 2012 to end fuel subsidies backed by his Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi he triggered a strike led by the Nigerian Labour Congress...
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Meeting via video-link for this year's Obafemi Awolowo lecture leaders from across the country – Anyaoku Sultan of Sokoto Sa'ad Abubakar Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the former governor of the central bank – spelt out the growing risks faced in the country and need for hard-headed political reforms...
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For the second time in as many decades Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been pushed out of a top institution with opinion divided over his future...
It recommends further investigation of all governors of the Central Bank – Charles Soludo Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and current governor Godwin Emefiele – since 2006...
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