Nigeria: Governors Go to Court Over Sovereign Wealth Fund
Plans by the government to transfer U.S.$1 Billion from the Excess Crude Account to the new Sovereign Wealth Fund may have met a brick wall with the country's governors.
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Nigeria:
SWF - Governors Threaten to Dump Out-of-Court Settlement Deal
Vanguard, 21 May 2012
Plans by the Federal Government to transfer $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to a new account to be known as the "Sovereign Wealth Fund," may have met a brick wall, as… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Okonjo-Iweala - Governors Now in Support of Sovereign Wealth Fund
Daily Trust, 18 November 2011
Nigerian governors have changed their minds and have accepted the sovereign wealth fund initiated by the federal government, Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala disclosed in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Presidency, Governors Meet Over SWF
Daily Trust, 12 October 2011
The presidency and governors of the thirty six states of the federation under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) are engaged in a cold war over the planned… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Sovereign Wealth Fund - FG, Governors Meeting Deadlocked
Vanguard, 30 September 2011
Negotiations between the Federal Government and the 36 state governors on the implementation of the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF have been deadlocked. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govs Hold Crucial Meeting Over SWF, Minimum Wage
This Day, 29 September 2011
The Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) Wednesday held a meeting to take a final decision on the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), Excess Crude Proceeds, security challenges and the… Read more »
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The federal government and the 36 states have failed to reach an out-of-court settlement over the dispute arising from the maintenance of the Excess Crude Account and the transfer ... Read more »
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Nigeria:
Governors Meet in Abuja
Leadership, 29 September 2011
Thirty-six state governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors forum yesterday met in Abuja over matters arising from the payment of minimum wage, sovereign wealth fund, petroleum… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Governors, Aganga and the Sovereign Wealth Fund
Daily Champion, 28 September 2011
THE recent gesture from the state Governors' Forum that they will agree to the demand of N18, 000 minimum wage only when the Federal Government agrees to suspend her Sovereign… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Governors Vs Labour - When Truce Becomes a Mirage
Leadership, 26 September 2011
Amidst cries of insufficient funds, the failure to broker a deal between state governors and state labour congresses over minimum wage has seen a plethora of strikes with more in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
FG Dares Governors Over SWF
Leadership, 26 September 2011
Despite the stiff opposition from the 36 state governors over the propriety of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), the federal government would not reverse itself on the issue, as it… Read more »
