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IMF critic heads team of economic monitors

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    President Obasanjo appointed Ibrahim Ayagi on Monday to head his National Economic Intelligence Committee, a body first set up in 1994 and now reconstructed to monitor government policy. Ayagi is well known locally as a critic of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and he opposed attempts by former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida to accept an IMF loan conditioned on market reforms. The IMF has offered Nigeria a US $1 billion standby loan provided that it carries out reforms and slashes government spending, Reuters reported on Monday.

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