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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Date of Birth: 13 June 1954
Place of Birth: Ogwashi Uku, Delta State


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A double first for Nigeria

' He thanked Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for having proposed him and Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper for seconding him thanked Uganda and then embraced Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's outgoing Finance Minister...

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Rising hopes, falling revenues

Outgoing Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's record as a managing director of the Bank and later as a candidate for its presidency in 2012 helped to steer the discussions (AC Vol 53 No 9 Africa's run at the Bank)...

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Policies, what policies?

Then Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who along with Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina remains one of the most respected members of the government commissioned the auditors PriceWaterhouseCoopers to make a forensic audit of the NNPC's management of sales revenue...


Oil, the political lubricant

Since the Finance Minister and former World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala imposed new rules and set up electronic systems to monitor the state budgets politicians have been looking for other avenues for funding...


The trade-off

' After the Liechtenstein deal Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala told journalists that the charges against Mohammed Abacha were dropped 'to ease the return' of the Liechtenstein funds...


Poison politics

However Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Finance Minister and former Managing Director of the World Bank says the Borno State government controlled by the APC should bear some responsibility for the schoolgirls' abduction...


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