Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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...

He is strongly supported by Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

The President’s economic team is led by the respected Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala formerly of the World Bank who left the last government in frustration and has just been reappointed Finance Minister...

Other members include the Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Niger Delta Affairs Minister Elder Godsday Orubebe; the federal Attorney General and Justice Minister Mohammed Belo Adoke; the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission Chibuzor Ugwoha; the Director General of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency Peter Idabor; the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s Group Managing Director Austen Oniwon; and the President’s Special Advisor (Technical Matters) Sullivan Akachukwu Nwakpo...

* Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Rivers): Government Reform/’Super’ Ministry of Finance...

Former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala now a senior official at the World Bank says that ‘Nigeria’s huge fiscal deficit rising domestic debt depletion of the ECA and the distress in the banking sector are issues that urgently need the attention of Jonathan’s cabinet...

Bakare is eyeing a group he terms the ‘best of the north and south’: Buhari Mallam Nasir El-Rufai Nuhu Ribadu Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili Pat Utomi and Donald Duke...

After a tough year former Finance Minister and current Managing Director of the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Africa Confidential that Nigeria’s services and construction sectors were ripe for take-off...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Managing Director of the World Bank is said to be a presidential favourite for the job although she is unlikely to negotiate a second sabbatical from the World Bank which faces its own radical restructuring programe...

Nigeria's former Finance Minister and now World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala argues that it is the synchronicity of different economic pressures converging that is exacerbating the effects of the crisis in Africa...