Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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...

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...