Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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...

Incoming President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has two bulky Africa dossiers in his in-tray after seeing off – thanks to solid backing from the United States and Europe – his Nigerian challenger Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

Among Tukur’s better-known cheerleaders were the Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Obasanjo who according to presidential insiders is the real champion of Tukur’s appointment as Chairman...

Despite his established line against the subsidy many of his opponents chose to portray Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as dictating the measure with the President meekly acquiescing to these powerful women...

Early in the year Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will announce the rebased GDP the first such recalculation of national income for two decades after lengthy research conducted with the World Bank...

In other cases Pretoria’s emerging allies have failed to show support in key geopolitical decisions for instance the bid by Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the presidency of the International Monetary Fund...

Last month’s bid by Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the World Bank presidency – representing developing countries and originally backed by Angola Brazil China and many other non-European members – failed and on 16 April the United States-nominated South Korean-born Jim Yong Kim became the Bank’s 12th President...