/ 13 June 2001

OBASANJO SACKS FOUR MINISTERS

NIGERIAS President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked four ministers including his minister for communications, officials said on Tuesday. The four ministers to be fired were Communications Minister Mohammed Arzika, Water Resources Minister Mohammed Arzika, and the deputy ministers for the capital territory and for power and steel, officials said in a statement. Four senior advisers, including the president’s economic adviser Philip Asiodu, also lost their posts. – AFP