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He is a teacher, banker, public servant and an eminent economist who served two presidents as minister, in addition to several other high-profile positions. With all his accomplishments, Shamsuddeen Usman is one of the most self-effacing and unassuming Nigerians that I know. He turns 75 on Wednesday, September 18, and here’s wishing him more years on earth in good health.
Titled ‘Public Policy and Agent Interests: Perspectives from the Emerging World’, the book is a unique publication on both the impetus for and impediments to growth and development in emerging economies. It provides a fascinating and penetrating insight into the workings of government and the boardroom, in terms of policy formulation and implementation, economic management as well as the overall growth paradigm in the developing world, with Nigeria as a case study.
Earlier, the Babangida military government in 1988 appointed Usman DG of TCPC , the agency that managed the government’s privatisation programme. The TCPC efficiently and with much integrity handled the privatisation and commercialisation of over 150 state-owned enterprises between 1988 and 1992, thereby deepening the Nigerian capital market and offering thousands of Nigerians a unique opportunity to invest in the market for the first time. That’s when our paths crossed.
This year, it recorded one of the best WAEC results in the state. Incidentally, the current principal of the school, a reverend gentleman, is my friend. Usman recently told me that he’s not only visited all the 36 states in the country, and has friends and contacts in all of them, but he has literally visited every major town in Nigeria, as well. This is obvious from his cosmopolitan and national outlook.
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