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1 online resource (714 pages) |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Photo Sections; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue: The Beginning of the End; The Benefit of Hindsight; He Gets It Who Wants It Not; Platter of Gold; Third Term's not a Charm; We Have Three Choices -- Taking the Good with the Bad; Chapter One -- Humble Origins; My Father, Ahmad Rufai Muhammad; My Elder Brother, Bashir Ahmad El-Rufai; Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto; Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi; Can you read a newspaper? -- A Bully Meets his Match; Barawa College Days |
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Early Raletionships and Leaderships LessonsEarly Career Thoughts; lagos, once upon a time; The Lessons ofNational Youth Service; Chapter Two -- The Calm Before the Storm; The Early Days of Private Practice; Marriage and Challenges of Family Life; Hamza Zayyad; E-Rufai & Partners; Chapter Three -- From Abacha to Obasanjo -- A Series of Accidents; How people get appointed into senior positions in gorvernment; Determining a handover date; The IMF Experience; Meeting Obasanjo, for the first time; Entering the BPE; Chapter Four -- taking Charge of Privatisation and Policy Reform; USA ID to the Rescue |
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The World Bank Steps InAn Encounter with Enron; The Swiss Tycoon and the Nikon-Noga-Hilton Hotel; Success factors in Public Service; Chapter Five -- You Will See the Meaning of Power -- The Cost of Doing Business; A 20 Million Hole; Mike Adenuga Sends Cash; Nigeria Airways or Two and a Half Planes; Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (Nitel); "My short friend, I have a duty to train you"; Chapter Six -- the Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend -- Unless the Friend is El-Rufai; Softening the Ground; Obasanjo won't complete his term; the Marabout said so; The Only Currency in Politics |
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Chapter Seven -- The Economic Team -- Key PlayersNuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Finance; Oby Ezekwesili, ""Madam Due Process"", Minister of Solid Minerals and Education; Charles Chukwuma Soludo, President's Economic Adviser and then Central Bank Governor; Asessment of Charles'Falling Out; Lessons Learned in Team-building; Chapter Eight -- Abuja -- The Economic Reform Laboratory; How I met the FCT; Establishing the working environment of the FCT; The Price of Lawlessness; The Tortoise in My Office |
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Squatter Relocation as Safety Netsrestoration of Wuse market: It's impossible, Hon. Minister -- Keeping the Capital Safe; Proud Moments; Obasanjo, Atiku and the PTDF saga; Winding down; Chapter Nine -- Land Reforms; Background to Land Reforms; Land Allocation Criteria; Land Administration in 2003; Legal Basis for Land Reforms; Districts without 'infrastructure'; Un-issued Letters of Offer (R of O); Failure to Re-certify Titles; Accelerate Development Programme (ADP); Functus Officio'-the Great Land Grab; Correlation between Policies and Outcomes |
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Chapter Ten -- Sale of Government Houses in Abuja |
| Summary |
This is a story of Nigeria, told from the inside. After a successful career in the private sector, Nasir El-Rufai rose to the top ranks of Nigeria's political hierarchy, serving first as the privatization czar at the Bureau for Public Enterprises and then as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja under former President Olesegun Obasanjo. In this tell-all memoir, El-Rufai reflects on a life in public service to Nigeria, the enormous challenges faced by the country, and what can be done while calling on a new generation of leaders to take the country back from the brink of destructio |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Statesmen -- Nigeria -- Biography
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Politics and government
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Statesmen
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| SUBJECT |
Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1993-2007. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004026
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Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 2007- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009004626
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Nigeria
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788431461 |
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9789788431312 |
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9788431313 |
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9789788431305 |
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9788431305 |
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9781299817449 |
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1299817440 |
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9789788431466 |
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