Head Of Nigeria's Budget Office, Bright Okogu, SACKED By President Buhari. See His Replacement (Photo)

Bright Okogu (Left), Yahaya Gusau (Right)According to a breaking report by Premium Times, President Muhammadu Buhari has on Thursday removed the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Bright Okogu, from office. In place of Okogu, Yahaya Gusau, has been appointed to take over the role of head of the Budget Office.The reason as to why Bright was removed is still unclear.If you want to know more about Yahaya Gusau, the new Head of Nigeria's Budget Office, follow the jump:Until his appointment in December 2007, Mr. Okogu held several top positions, including Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, IMF, in Washington DC; Senior Operations Officer at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Fund and Market Analyst, OPEC Secretariat in Vienna, Austria.He served as Special Adviser to the Minister of Finance (2004 to 2007) and also the pioneer Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).Although he worked to deepen openness and transparency about the Nigerian budget for years, Mr. Okogu will also be remembered for failing to make details of the 2015 budget public several months after the budget proposal was presented to the National Assembly.Journalists and analysts also told this newspaper at the time they were denied the details, amid speculations the government deliberately refused to publish them online or in hard copies as done in past years, to avoid embarrassing reports and analyses.Credit: Premium Times Nigeria
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