Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

' After the Liechtenstein deal Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala told journalists that the charges against Mohammed Abacha were dropped 'to ease the return' of the Liechtenstein funds...

However Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Finance Minister and former Managing Director of the World Bank says the Borno State government controlled by the APC should bear some responsibility for the schoolgirls' abduction...

Faced with this litany of infractions Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Economy Minister and former Managing Director of the World Bank proposed a forensic audit of the NNPC but one ringed with caveats...

There is already a three-way disagreement between the House of Representatives the Senate and the Executive over the financial projections behind the budget particularly the average or benchmark price of oil for 2014 Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the executive favour using a lower average oil price of $74 a barrel which would mean a tighter budget and more revenue going into the government's excess crude account...

A retired general chuckled at a story circulating in Abuja that a colleague who had been one of Jonathan's early supporters when he was doing battle as Vice-President with the Yar'Adua family recently told the President: ‘There are five presidents in this country: your wife (Patience Jonathan) the Petroleum Minister (Diezani Allison-Madueke) the Aviation Minister (Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi) the Finance Minister (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and you...

Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a fluent French speaker was very positive about the down-to-earth nature of the economic talks in Paris...

The hard-headed Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and her team have drawn up a federal budget for 2014 that envisages a ten per cent cut in state spending...

Well-regarded personnel like Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Agriculture Minister Akunwumni Adesina stay in place but so does Jonathan's staunch ally and Minister of Petroleum Dlamini Alison-Madueke...

Attempts by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Coordinating Minister for the Economy to remove the fuel subsidy are likely to prompt opposition as fierce as last year...