Goldman’s influence creeps into Nigeria

Date: 07-04-2010 8:00 am (15 years ago) | Author: AfricanNewslive
- at 7-04-2010 08:00 AM (15 years ago)
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Goldman Sachs’ powerful reach into world governments has finally snaked into oil-rich Nigeria.

A managing director at the Wall Street giant yesterday was named as Nigeria’s finance minister at a time when the resource-rich African nation struggles with a wobbly government and rebel threats on its oil pipelines.

One of the key responsibilities of Olusegun Aganga will be to give economic advice to his optimistically named acting President Goodluck Jonathan, who’s been filing in for Nigeria’s ailing president, Umaru Yar’Adua, since he left office in November.

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