Nigerian Bulletin » Anthony Cardinal Okogie

Sanusi canvasses Islamic banking – The Guardian

Bunmi Awolusi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:50:40 +0000

Just as the Northern Caucus in the House of Representatives yesterday kicked against the recent bail-out for banks pronounced sick by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the man who calls the shots at the bank has initiated plans to develop a framework for Islamic (non-interest) banking in the country. The development came as the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, gave a qualified backing to foreign acquisition of Nigerian banks.

The caucus, which criticised the development yesterday in Abuja called on the CBN to immediately seek the ratification of the National Assembly, insisting that “the injection of the N400 billion without appropriation by the National Assembly is unconstitutional.”

The caucus however gave support to CBN’s efforts towards sanitizing the banking sector and the country’s economy and calling on the apex bank to pursue the ongoing reforms to a logical conclusion.

Okogie opposes pay for militants, YCE to meet Yar’Adua – The Guardian

Bunmi Awolusi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:26:21 +0000

The Federal Government’s introduction of monetary incentives in it amnesty package has been condemned by the Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie.

Okogie said it was wrong of the government to have reneged on its earlier plan not to offer cash to militants in the amnesty package.

He said the decision to pay each of the 10,000 militants a monthly allowance of N20,000 and daily feeding allowance of N1,500 as announced by the Chief Co-ordinator of Amnesty Implementation Committee, Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ararile, was not well thought out because it could fuel the crisis as the armed men would certainly ask for more.

And worried by the protracted Niger Delta crisis, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) also known as Igbimo Agba Yoruba, has resolved to meet with President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on ways to promptly end the problem.