The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, has been conferred with the 2013 Central Bank Governor of the year award.

This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Director of Communications of the Central Bank.

It said the award was conferred on Sanusi at the seventh African Banker Awards gala dinner which held on Wednesday at the Taj Palace, Marrakech, Morocco.

The statement said Omar Ben Yedder, Publisher, African Banker, said the award committee recognised Mr. Sanusi’s outstanding work in the past years in sustaining banking reforms in Nigeria. It commended Mr. Sanusi for ensuring stability in macro economy, protecting the independence of the central bank, enhancing many aspects of Nigerian banking, and adoption of new technologies for financial inclusion.

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