Obasanjo's supporters fear that political opposition to his new government and reforms being pushed by technocrats such as Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Federal Capital Territory Minister Nassir el-Rufai are chipping away at powerful vested interests; in their place new business interests are emerging closer to Obasanjo...
Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
That policy will probably continue especially as it fits the reform plans of new Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (and of the International Monetary Fund)...
Leading the reform is new Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is determined to end what the International Monetary Fund and World Bank regard as market-distorting state subsidies on fuel...
Now Obasanjo is promising a new anti-corruption drive and has appointed the World Bank Vice-President Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Minister of Finance and Economy...
Vol 37 No 10 |
- WORLD BANK
Wolfensohn has just appointed a Nigerian staffer Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director of the Institutional Change and Strategy Department...