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Economic Confidential,
January, 2009
JANUARY 2009 CONTENTS
Editor’s Suite
Nigeria is a Roasted Yam…
Profile
Dr. Mansur Muhtar:
Another First Class Finance Minister
Exclusive Interview
Over $100bn for
Infrastructure Developments in Nigeria- DG ICRC
Features
Tackling
Unemployment through Infrastructure Concession in Nigeria
Nigeria's
department of homeland and economic security
Setting New
Agenda for Science and Technology
Information
Management: Between Odey and Akunyili
Thoughts on
Affordable and Social Housing in Nigeria
Lessons from
NigComSat and our technology policy
The Economics of Infrastructure
Concession- By Salisu Suleman
Global Perspective
Bush: Farewell
to legacy of ‘sorrow, tears and blood’
States
Kano proposes N109bn for
2009
Budget
Proposals of Anambra, Gombe, Bayelsa, and Kwara
Approved
Budgets of Abia, Osun, Enugu, Ondo, Lagos
Yobe needs N3.7bn
to check flooding, environmental degradation
Ekiti Head of
Service assures of job security
Facts and Figures
FEDERATION ACCOUNT:
A Detail Allocation of N495bn
in December 2008
- Statutory N389bn,
Excess Crude N106bn
Special Focus
Kano’s Budget of
Sustainable Economic Growth and Development II
Guiding
Principles for Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies in Nigeria
No Chevron Tax
Money was Diverted – FIRS
For the Record
The Making of
Nigeria’s Budget 2009
Budget 2009: Dead on
Arrival
Key Macroeconomic
Developments in Nigeria
Ilorin
Aviation School and Economic Development
National
Finally EFCC
Declares El-rufai Wanted
How National Awardee
Defrauds Nigerians of N700m
EFCC on
Revenge Mission?
Niger Bridge Won't
Collapse-NEMA
Editor’s Suite
As the Economic Confidential celebrates its second anniversary in
January 2009, we have commenced the circulation of its print edition
to all the 774 local government councils in Nigeria to make it truly
accessible. We have been encouraged by the supports and
encouragement of our patrons, advertisers, subscribers and readers
to embark on this new frontier… Read
Dr. Mansur Muhtar: Another First
Class Finance Minister
The new Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muhtar was in the team of
technocrats who negotiated the exit of Nigeria from emasculated
foreign debts from multilateral institutions… He obtained First
Class in B.Sc. Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and
passed with Distinction in postgraduate programme (M.Phil),
Economics and Politics of Development from University of Cambridge
United Kingdom. He also holds Ph.d. in Economic from University of
Sussex…. Read
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Over $100bn
for Infrastructure Developments in Nigeria- DG ICRC
Engineer Mansur Ahmed is the Director General of the newly
inaugurated Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission ICRC.
Before his new appointment he had served as Director General/Chief
Executive Officer of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) since
2004 where he became a great advocate for public private partnership
toward revitalization of the economy. He believes neither the public
institution nor the private sector can solely shoulder the
responsibility of providing the required infrastructures for a
teeming populace like Nigeria. In this exclusive interview granted
to the Economic Confidential he bares his mind on the newly
inaugurated Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC)
and expectations… Read
Bush: Farewell to legacy of
‘sorrow, tears and blood’
Today, few days to inaugurating the new President elect Barrack
Obama the world is far from being a better place. As I am talking to
you, an all out war is going on in Palestine where we are witnessing
the 20th century Holocaust – a victim turned oppressor. Even Iraq,
where we are told the country is free from the clutches of a despot,
the country was better of during Saddam than during the time of
American imposed government of Nouri Elmaliky…
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FEDERATION ACCOUNT: A Detail Allocation of
N495bn in December 2008 - Statutory
N389bn, Excess Crude N106bn
From documents obtained by Nigeria’s economic journal, the Economic
Confidential, the highest recipients are mostly oil producing states
of Rivers which receives N15.5bn, Akwa Ibom N11.2bn, Delta N8.2bn,
Bayelsa N7bn and Ondo N5bn. The lowest recipients with less thanN3bn
in the table are Ekiti N1.3bn, Nasarawa N2.5bn, Gombe N2.5bn and
Ebonyi N2.9bn… Read
Kano’s Budget of Sustainable
Economic Growth and Development II
The total size of the proposed Budget of Sustainable Economic Growth
and Development II is N108,731,536,152:00 made up of a recurrent
expenditure of N40,442,000,940:00 and capital expenditure component
of N68,289,535,212:00. The recurrent size of the budget is made up
of N20,407,564,988:00 of Personnel cost and N20,034,435,952:00 as
Overhead cost. The proposal is expected to be funded from a total
recurrent revenue receipt of N81,863,920,879:00 (Federally Collected
Revenue and IGR) and capital receipts of N26,867,615,273 (Grants and
Miscellaneous Capital Receipts). It is a balanced budget…
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Information Management:
Between Odey and Akunyili
Other sensitive ministries like that of justice, health, finance,
science and technology have always had relevant professionals with
requisite qualification as ministers. Since the reemergence of
democratic dispensation in 1999 some of the past ministers of
Federal Ministry of Information were Emeka Chikelu, a lawyer; Frank
Nweke Jnr., a zoologist and John Odey a banker by qualifications…
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Celebrating Shekarau as Man of
the Year
By
Saka Raji Audu
Born
on 5th November, 1955 in Kano, Shekarau acquired both
Islamic and Western knowledge, graduating into seasoned
administrator, civil servant and a well thoughtful teacher of all
times. By dint of hard work, patience and perseverance, Malam
Shekarau went through the various rudiment of his life...
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