Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The hard-headed Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and her team have drawn up a federal budget for 2014 that envisages a ten per cent cut in state spending...

Well-regarded personnel like Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Agriculture Minister Akunwumni Adesina stay in place but so does Jonathan's staunch ally and Minister of Petroleum Dlamini Alison-Madueke...

Attempts by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Coordinating Minister for the Economy to remove the fuel subsidy are likely to prompt opposition as fierce as last year...

Ahead of the President's 8-12 July visit Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced that new financing deals worth US$3 billion were on the table...

If the government fails to act on the report which is due to be sent to President Goodluck Jonathan on 2 November it will further undermine reformers such as Economy Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi...

Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (who launched her new book Reforming the Unreformable at Nigeria’s Embassy in Tokyo) emphasised the importance of understanding the political economy of reform...

Yet they see little prospect of the government tackling the roots of the crisis because its main reformers – Sanusi and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – are outmanoeuvred by defenders of that status quo...

Yet the latest figures from Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala suggest that even that commitment cannot be financed within the original 4 749 bn...

Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a strong advocate of ending the subsidy had to amend the budget until negotiations could be concluded over its future...