Former Nigerian Central Bank head joins Blackstone Africa Fund

11 June 2015, New York – Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s ousted central-bank governor, will head up Blackstone BX +0.61%’s sub-Saharan Africa energy infrastructure fund, the giant private-equity firm has revealed. Sanusi was considered an astute and charismatic central-bank governor for Africa’s biggest economy and oil producer, but he was suspended early last year after he raised […] More »