Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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...

She was later the Bank's lead economist for Nigeria and often met former colleague (and now World Bank Managing Director) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (AAC Vol 1 No 6)...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s team of technocrats – including current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank Vice-President Obiageli Ezekwesili – are out of the running and Yar’Adua’s pool of talent is under pressure politically and physically...

Born in 1954 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala studied economics at Harvard University then earned a Ph...

His appointment seemed to indicate that Yar'Adua wanted to continue the reforms introduced by his predecessor's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

And both institutions have secured the services of the same woman: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's former Finance Minister and architect of the landmark 2006 US$30 billion debt deal...