Also important in the economic team is Okechukwu Enelamah former Industry Trade and Investment Minister from Abia state...
Should she be replaced by a man such as Okechukwu Enelamah the trade minister who has recently backed Nigeria's membership of the African Continental Free Trade Area then there would be pressure to have a woman as Foreign Minister...
Abuja's top diplomats and military officers have full diaries in New York for the week ending 23 September as does the investment team led by Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun and Trade Minister Okechukwu Enelamah...
With talented ministers such as Okechukwu 'Okey' Enelamah Babatunde Fashola Kayode Fayemi and Udo Udoma all with clear reform ideas there is puzzlement and concern about the government's economic failures...
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Beyond efforts to cooperate each of the main policy-makers faces worsening financial constraints: Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun has to finance this year's budget after export revenue fell by 40% last year; Trade Industry and Investment Minister Enyinnaya Okechukwu Enelamah has to revive industry and drastically improve the ease of doing business in Nigeria; Energy Housing and Works Minister Babatunde Raji Fashola has to push through emergency measures to bail out the mainly privately owned power sector; CBN Governor Emefiele has both to counter rising inflation and find a way to stabilise the exchange rate as pressure mounts for a big devaluation of the naira (AC Vol 56 No 9 Rising hopes falling revenues)...
Vol 57 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
We hear that Nigeria's new Trade and Investment Minister Okechukwu Enelamah wants to cut through the country's business bureaucracy (AC Vol 56 No 23 Buhari resets the clock)...
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• Trade Industry and Investment: Okechukwu Enyinna Enelamah the banking star who established African Capital Alliance and built it into the country's biggest private equity company will work both on economic diplomacy and on rebuilding and widening international commercial links...
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