Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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...

The audit is due to be released this month Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in London in October (AC Vol 55 No 21 Follow the money)...

'For us it is very clearly infrastructure' says Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

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...

' 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...

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...

Faced with this litany of infractions Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Economy Minister and former Managing Director of the World Bank proposed a forensic audit of the NNPC but one ringed with caveats...

There is already a three-way disagreement between the House of Representatives the Senate and the Executive over the financial projections behind the budget particularly the average or benchmark price of oil for 2014 Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the executive favour using a lower average oil price of $74 a barrel which would mean a tighter budget and more revenue going into the government's excess crude account...

A retired general chuckled at a story circulating in Abuja that a colleague who had been one of Jonathan's early supporters when he was doing battle as Vice-President with the Yar'Adua family recently told the President: ‘There are five presidents in this country: your wife (Patience Jonathan) the Petroleum Minister (Diezani Allison-Madueke) the Aviation Minister (Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi) the Finance Minister (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and you...

Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a fluent French speaker was very positive about the down-to-earth nature of the economic talks in Paris...