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NIGERIA'S CENTRAL bank governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, 50, was voted Africa Person of the Year by prestigious financial publication, Forbes magazine.

Mr. Sanusi, who is said to have initiated reforms in Nigeria's troubled banking sector since his appointment in 2009, beat five other candidates to the top honour, including Nobel Peace laureate and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

In his acceptance speech Mr. Sanusi, who was named on Monday (November 28), credited his success to employers at the bank.

"Everything achieved as governor is a collective result of the 5,000 hardworking workers of the bank," he said.

In a statement, Forbes said the 50-year-old was among those who had had 'significant influence on the events of 2011 on the African continent.' Mr. Sanusi received the most votes by the magazine's readers in an online poll.

"The hard line reforms, which drew criticisms and personalised attacks from some interested parties on the domestic front, earned him the approval of even western regulators and politicians, many of whom are still struggling for solutions to the financial crises in their own countries,'' the statement read.

Mr. Sanusi beat Mrs Sirleaf, a Nigeria business tycoon who tops Forbes' list of Africa's richest people, former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires, who won this year's $5m (£3.2m) Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa and Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate, who died in September.

The central bank bailed out nine banks and removed their chief executives who were accused of fraudulent practices.

Several of the ousted bankers have been put on trial for alleged financial mismanagement.


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Nchara:
I will gloss over your rude retort and hope you can contribute without insults.

And I will thank you for stating that he did not steal. That is the point of my thread.
He sacrificed his own wealth and did not steal public funds when he had the opportunity to do so. I do not know how many of our present and past leaders we can say same of

Gloss over it . . .

Now is not a time for this.

When ever have you heard about Ojukwu being corrupt - ehh? So what's your problem?

This thread was totally uncalled for -  I wish I had the ability to delete it.

Bloody pathetic,

Gbawe:
Correct my brother !!! As a UK landlord I can testify to how caucasian British folks have a serious problem even being minimally cordial to me because of how disappointed they are that black folks now own several Properties in the UK to the extent they can rent some out to their "superior" hosts. Totally disgusting. People possessing little education and zero willingness to work hard suddenly thinking they are superior because of the colour of their skin? What effing losers !!! Some of these indolent and ill-educated clowns should go and see how perverted and mediocre white folks are slavishly worshipped in Africa, while we have have to prove ourselves in the West with sheer talent and ability, before they open their mouth !!! Nonsense.

Lol

Na so my broda . . .

As I said, she's lucky she aint one of my tenants (or subordinates) - she would either be sitting in darkness and cold right now, reading her 'Notice to Quit' or reading her suspension/dismissal letter/email - 

Without revealing too much, I on occassion experience the same resentment but do not tolerate it. I'm quite brutal with them (and arrogant about it)

I reveal to 'low-life' trash just how far ahead of them I am - afterall, why should I appease them?

I'm becoming immune to racism but at the same time deal with racist by 'winding them up'.

My ''Guy' sitting behind her was about to deal with her - 'Oyibo' had to beg him not too and then gave him a hug.

Thats was touching - I cant say I would have done the same and refrained from 'Fcu.king her up'.

Nchara:
Did Ojukwu ever corruptly enrich himself during and after the war?
If he did, I am done with him. I can take anything but a corrupt and selfish leader

Your a bloody fool . . . .

His father was a very rich man - Wealth Ojukwu was prepared to sacrifice for his people.

Where have you ever heard about Ojukwu stealing?

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Lol

You aint British - your black!

Anyway, the woman has been arrested.

But her message is one common amongst oyibo people - they will never accept blacks as British - even if they have a passport.

I bet you her landlord is foreign and her boss is foreign. (And I wish I were both her landlord and employer)

I love seeing low-life trash like this - because I'm better of than them and some of them have to answer to me and obey my wishes - White Trash.

Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca, yesterday told a delegation of the Nigerian High Commission in Britain, led by the High Commissioner, Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, that her husband’s death came as a surprise especially after he had been discharged.

Why was he discharged if he wasn't fully recovered?

This sounds like a case of medical negligence.

We await the post-mortem . . .

You have all been warned - especially those that wish death upon people.

Ojukwu is alive.

. . . . stop falling victim to false reports.

France will loan Nigeria $100 million to set up a bus network in its sprawling commercial capital Lagos, the foreign ministry said Friday during a visit by Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan.

Is the money for buses?

Or a network for buses?

Or both?

I suspect it may be for something like private bus lanes that will either have tolls or the need for a licence to use the road.

Either way - Lagosians will end up paying $1Billion plus for it through taxation.

He has some unfinished business to take care of (Including that Patience's case)

Euros or Dollars?

Anyway, who cares - Lagos will soon belong to the 'World Bank' once they start defaulting.

The world bank is simply investing in their future infrastructure whilst at the same time burdening Lagos with more debt it will be unable to pay.

One day it will dawn on the stupid people of Lagos that Fashola/Tinubu are only interested in fleecing them indefinetely.

They constantly come up with 'illegal laws' to fleece the docile population of Lagos.

SMH

PointB:
All these camera crew for a private condolence visit?

Nigerian politicians are low lives; turning every thing (including simple condolence visit) to politics and political opportunism.

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Most of our low-life politicians wouldn't stoop this this low - Fashola is one of the biggest low-life politicians we have.

He's a disgrace - And personally, after seeing these pictures I think he should resign.

It should be an ex-looter - maybe Cecilia Ibru - 

She has the experience and knows how a looter thinks - 

But on a serious note, I think the person should be an expert in 'forensic financial investigations'

The person must be an expert in tracking down looted funds wherever or however its been hidden.

The person must also be incorriptable.

If such a person cannot be found, then bring back 'Ribadu'.

EzeUche:
^^^

Abians do not care. I see nothing wrong with the indigenization of state civil service workers, EXCEPT for teachers and doctors.

I wasn't too bothered either - Until I learnt two of my aunties have lost their jobs.

His actions leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

What if other SE Governors copy him - it will breed hatred amongst our people which would be so so tragic.

I'm greatful they haven't but T.A Orji has no doubt created problems and hardship for many people.

I'm not a fan of the man or his policies. I see his latest actions as no more than a form of deception.

A couple of questions . . . ,

How many people were sacked and how many were recruited in their place?

Will any arrears owed to the sacked workers be payed?

morpheus24:
^^^

That boy is some Dead carpet flying Arab!

Wrong - He's a singing Arab.

The West are rightfully panicking and eager for him to be silenced ASAP.

He's committed no crime apart from being born to the man he was bon too.

I'm sure he wishes he was a Nigerian dictators son:

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Poor poor 'Yanks' - 

I think the Nigerian and other African Govts should come together and send them some food.

Do they consume Casava in America?

Famine in Somalia - Famine in L.A

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Corruption everywhere you look . . .

NNPC should be disbanded - they are the root cuase of the problem.

Its a corrupt private corporation thats sole purpose is to fleece Nigeria.

These foreign airlines have been fleecing us for decades.

This is a welcome development.

If only Nigeria would put the fine towards reviving Nigeria Airways.

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A nice position to be in but they should be ruthless.

They should send Angolians to Portugal to run whatever state companies they acquire.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said Thursday his country is ready to help former colonial ruler Portugal as the crisis-hit European country's prime minister made a visit to drum up investment.

"We're aware of the difficulties the Portuguese people have faced recently to end the crisis," Dos Santos said after meeting Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho at the presidential palace in Luanda.

"Angola is open and available to help Portugal face this crisis to the benefit and advantage of both countries," he told a press conference.

"In this difficult moment of financial crisis hitting Portugal, it's important to remember the good relations that exist between our two countries, based not only on circumstantial interests but on historic ties, friendship, cooperation and even our shared blood."

Passos Coelho, who arrived Wednesday night on a visit of just over 24 hours, is looking to strengthen trade ties and discuss the booming former colony's interest in buying shares in Portuguese state companies.

"We should take advantage of this moment of financial and economic crisis to strengthen our bilateral relations in the different sectors of our respective countries," he told AFP.

"Angola is in the middle of rebuilding its democratic institutions to establish its young democracy after many years of armed conflict."

Angola won its independence from Portugal in 1975, but descended into a 27-year civil war that ended only in 2002.

It has been rebuilding at breakneck speed in the nine years since, thanks largely to oil deposits that make it Africa's second-largest petroleum producer.

Its economy is set to grow 12 percent next year, while Portugal's is facing a 2.8-percent shrinkage.

That gloomy outlook has forced Portugal to sell off state companies under a 78-billion-euro ($105-billion) International Monetary Fund bailout deal.

Air carrier TAP, utilities company Energias de Portugal, the failing Banco Portugues de Negocios, and national grid operator Redes Energeticas Nacionais are all on the block.

Passos Coelho, who lived in Luanda as a child, when his father was a colonial-era doctor, said the countries would hold their first-ever strategic and economic summit in 2013 on the theme of sustainable development.

He later addressed a meeting of Portuguese and Angolan business leaders on economic relations between the two countries and the Angolan government's outstanding debt to Portuguese construction firms.

Angola fell behind on payments to the companies when oil prices dropped in 2009. It owes Portuguese contractors $2.0 billion, according to Finance Minister Carlos Lopes, but has been working to pay them back with the help of a $1.4-billion IMF loan. - ANP/AFP

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cap28:
^^^^

africans had a civilisation which was far more advanced than anything that the europeans could ever muster - stop exhibiting your ignorance and read about ancient nubia - we were far ahead of the europeans in terms of civilisation. 

who invented writing, irrigation the europeans or the ancient egyptians?

for your information - the so called skyscrapers you see in the western world today are all modelled after the pyramids which were built by black africans in egypt thousands of years ago - an engineering feat which europeans remain baffled by to date.

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Brazilian Cabinet Members: (Spot the Negro -  )

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