Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina a candidate for the presidency of the African Development Bank this year has said that once farming is seen as a business rather than an aid project Africa will be able to build a developmental base whatever the turbulence outside...
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Then Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who along with Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina remains one of the most respected members of the government commissioned the auditors PriceWaterhouseCoopers to make a forensic audit of the NNPC's management of sales revenue...
Dynamic reform duoAlongside Sanusi and Okonjo-Iweala the other two leading forces for economic reform in the government are Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina and the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission Arunma Otteh who is setting ambitious targets for the development of Nigeria's capital markets...
Reform trio Although the fuel-subsidy crisis deeply undermined the government some resolute optimists still put faith in the credentials of its reform trio: Coordinating Minister of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi...
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Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina is well regarded particularly at home...
