Browsing: Lamido Sanusi

Sanusi, who said a special prayer for peace at Jonathan’s residence, was one of the northern traditional rulers, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, to join the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for the breaking of Ramadan fast

Meanwhile the suspended governor has dragged Jonathan before an Abuja Federal High Court in a suit he filed to challenge his suspension from office. In the application filed on his behalf by his lawyer, Kola Awodein (SAN), Sanusi is asking the court to restrain the President, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police from giving effect to his purported suspension from office as the CBN governor, pending the determination of the suit

In the last quarter of 2013, the controversial Central Bank of Nigeria governor raised alarm that $49 billion of crude oil revenue was purportedly unaccounted for by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. When the smoke cleared and the books were properly looked into, everyone realised that the conjured figures quoted by the governor of Nigeria’s apex bank were so off the mark that even the ordinary market woman sniggered

It warned that any move to suspend Sanusi and use security forces to prevent him from entering his office, as reported by the media, will even be worse, because it will mean that the President is willing to circumvent the provision of the law that the Governor of the CBN can only be removed by two-thirds of the Senate membership