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    July 12, 2011

Nigerian President Appoints More Cabinet Ministers

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   Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, (File)
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   Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, (File)

   Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed several new Cabinet
   ministers, including naming career diplomat Olugbenga Ashiru as
   Nigeria's new foreign minister.
   Jonathan also appointed Bart Nnaji as power minister, as he continues
   to fill out his Cabinet after being sworn in for his first full term as
   president last month.
   The Nigerian president has yet to officially assign a position to World
   Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but it is widely believed
   the economist will take her former job of finance minister. She has
   already been approved to take a Cabinet post.
   Okonjo-Iweala served as finance minister under former Nigerian
   president Olusegun Obasanjo. She was widely praised for negotiating the
   cancelation of nearly $20 billion of Nigeria's debt in 2005.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

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