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Nigeria

Shamsudeen Usman

Date of Birth: 18 July 1949
Place of Birth: Kano


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Jonathan and the securocrats

On the cabinet list there is an embarrassment of ministerial talent in some areas: in finance for example Goldman Sachs banker Olusegun Aganga is on the list as is former Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman and former Deputy Finance Minister Remi Babalola...


Half-time for Yar'Adua

Two years later the Vision is in the hands of Shamsudeen Usman Minister of National Planning who said in Abuja on 5 July: 'I cannot tell you the specific measures or strategies now because we are still selecting means to build the structure...


Crisis? What crisis?

Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman said that ministries departments and agencies had used only between 40% and 50% of the funds disbursed to them under the 2008 budget blaming the National Assembly which he said had delayed approval of the budget...


A message from our sponsors

The most pessimistic voice comes from Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman who speaks of ‘very serious measures’ to cut spending...


Among the survivors

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...


Two continents, one food crisis

In Washington DC for the World Bank/International Monetary Fund meeting Nigeria's Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman admitted that his country has done little about the rising price of rice because the pinch had not yet been felt; the policy response would have to be a'massive intervention' in agriculture...


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