The claims last year by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi now Emir of Kano but then CBN Governor that the state's Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to repatriate tens of billions of dollars to the government account prompted a public row at the heart of government (AC Vol 55 No 4 Oil theft row escalates)...
Vol 55 No 22 |
- WEST AFRICA
It was popular agitation coupled with claims by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that the state oil company had failed to account for US$40 billion in export revenue that forced President Jonathan to commission a forensic audit of the accounts...
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When he was Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi told the Senate that both Talveras and Aiteo were undertaking crude oil swaps for imports of refined products for which there was no audit trail...
In May 2013 Sanusi Lamido Sanusi then Central Bank Governor reported that the programme had cost US$1 billion since it was launched in 2009 under President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...
Two days later Sanusi Lamido a nephew of the deposed Emir emerged as Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II...
From Abuja the PDP sent a congratulatory note to the palace apparently not believing that the kingmakers would choose its public enemy Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir...
On 8 June Kwankwaso and three kingmakers appointed suspended Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano and the PDP wanted to respond strongly (see Feature Sanusi's political throne)...
An ally of Jonathan's tried to smear Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the suspended Central Bank Governor by linking him to Boko Haram...
8 billion: that was the oil sales revenue between January 2012 and June 2013 that should have been transferred to the federation account said a letter written by Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to President Goodluck Jonathan last September (AC Vol 54 No 25 Presidential letter bombs)...
The row continues over the leaking of former President Olusegun Obasanjo's critical 18-page letter to Jonathan and a shorter one from Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi...
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Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the governor of the CBN wrote in a private letter to Jonathan that the state oil company has failed to remit some $50 billion between January 2012 and July 2013...
