Since June he and his highly effective Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo have taken extensive soundings about how to make institutions and officials work better...
Described by a bank economist as tackling economic woes with one arm behind his back Emefiele will get some relief thanks to the new economic team under the leadership of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...
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Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was there as were Chinese Ambassador Bian Jianqiang Three Gorges President Wang Lin and Jean-Louis Borloo a minister under French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Already Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a former Finance Commissioner in Lagos State is taking the lead on economic matters and is seen as one of the competent technocrats in the government so far...
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Eventually Buhari settled for Yemi Osinbajo a professor of law and Pentecostal pastor who is seen as Tinubu's candidate (AC Vol 55 No 25 Political storm warning)...
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Other influential economic thinkers on the APC side include Vice-President-elect Yemi Osinbajo a former Justice Commissioner and Attorney General in Lagos State (AC Vol 56 No 4 Policing the vote); Professor Adedoyin ('Doyin') Salami of Lagos Business School who has also served on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee; Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai the Kaduna State Governor-elect and former Minister for Abuja and Director of Bureau for Public Enterprises has strong pro-market views on accelerating growth (AC Vol 56 No 7 A moment of truth for the General)...
The APC is a national opposition party that combines Buhari's personal following in the north with the organised activists in the south-west who back his running mate Yemi Osinbajo a respected technocrat (AC Vol 55 No 25 Political storm warning)...
Tinubu suggested three names to Buhari: himself the popular Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and Professor Yemi Osinbajo former Attorney General for Lagos...
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