The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that recurrent expenditure in next year’s budget is to be reduced from 74 to 72 per cent. Okonjo- Iweala made the disclosure at a forum organised by ThisDay Newspapers at the ongoing annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in […]
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday made a 10-minute appearance at the public hearing of the House of Representatives on the illegal concession agreement between her ministry and Single Window Systems and Technology Limited (SWST). The minister was on Monday threatened with an arrest if she failed to appear before the ad-hoc committee by […]
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, has denied reports that she steered contracts worth $50m to her brother in 2004. An online news portal had published a Wikileaks report that ‘Okonjo-Iweala ferried $50m jobs to brother.’ Okonjo-Iweala has however, described the story as a “tales by moonlight” account. […]
The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill For all my little education, my maths is very poor, my knowledge of economics relatively average, and my level of financial know-how is not more than those high-sounding words and those pages of the financial markets in newspapers and those […]
The latest US diplomatic cable released on Friday from the whistleblower, WikiLeaks, has made allegations of corruption against some powerful Nigerians. Some of those listed in the report are either occupying key positions in the present government or had served in the past as federal ministers and state governors. The list included the Minister of […]
THERE was spontaneous anger among senior citizens, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, following the explosion, which rocked the United Nations building in Abuja. Obasanjo, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, and the Governor of Abia state, Chief Theodore Orji, condemned the attack, saying the perpetrators should be fished out […]
The workers at the multi-billion naira Olorunsogo Power Plant phase 1 have revealed that SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corporation, the Chinese firm that built it has been frustrating the smooth operations of the eight gas turbines of the power project. This was the shocking revelation during a working visit of the Minister of Power, Barth […]
President Goodluck Jonathan was excited yesterday as he swore in he Minister of Finance and the Coordinator of the National Economic Management Team (NEMT), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The president announced that she and her colleagues from the Diaspora in the cabinet had agreed to be paid in naira and not dollar as reported in the […]
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will effectively make a comeback this morning as a minister in the Jonathan administration. The former World Bank managing director would be sworn in this morning at 9 a.m. as finance minister and thereafter join her colleagues for the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) at 10 a.m. President Goodluck Jonathan had earlier […]
By Muhammad Ajah, Abuja, Nigeria – August 16, 2011 – The list of Honourable Ministers for the federal cabinet and Special Advisers or Assistants to Mr. President so far released is commendable on one hand. The list is made up technocrats and seasoned political calibers who have distinguished themselves in their fields of specialization. The […]
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