Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The driving force behind the government's economic reforms was Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who held both the Finance and Foreign Affairs portfolios as well as leading Nigeria's negotiators in talks to cancel more than 80% of the country's foreign debt...

He moved high-profile Finance Minister and former World Bank Vice-President Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to Foreign Affairs and fellow reformer Oby Ezekwesili from Solid Minerals to Education...

The budget will clarify Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala's claims to have stabilised the macro-economy and got a grip on public spending...

Obasanjo's reform team including Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Energy Minister Obi Ezekwesili and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nassir el-Rufai may continue in their technocratic roles but lack the backing within the PDP for the top job...

We hear that a government mission led by Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala last month told World Bank and International Monetary Fund officials that revenues were projected to balloon by 2008 to more than double the current $22 bn...

There are even reports that Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Special Advisor on Due Process to the President Oby Ezekwesili were considering their positions following a critical but poorly-researched editorial in the Washington Post on the oil awards...

Creditors worried about Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala's efforts to stabilise the economy...

Threats but no action Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in whom high hopes were placed on her appointment in July 2003 talks of a fiscal responsibility act to publish all federal government accounts and submit them to independent audits...

Reformers such Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Central Bank Governor Charles Soludo (whose slimming of the banking sector seems to be working) enjoy confidence among business supporters but not political observers...

This week's result puts the liberalisers led by Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Funsho Kupolukun new Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ahead of the unions as well as the smugglers who did so well out of NNPC-subsidised fuel...