A key finding is that the economy, like that of many other middle-income countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Egypt, is becoming more service-driven as the services sector has expanded significantly
Browsing: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
World Bank President, Dr Jim Kim, on Wednesday in Washington, United States of America, announced that Nigeria was among the world’s extremely poor countries
Makarfi said that the committee would reconvene on February 20 to enable the Attorney General of Federation to give legal advice on the issue
A statement by the Service in Abuja said that the appointment of the officers was approved by Customs Board in a meeting presided by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The President Goodluck Jonathan administration, contrary to the impression given by some critics Okonjo-Iweala said, is making impact in the areas that, according to credible opinion polls, Nigerians are most passionate about
Hon. Ibrahim Bawa Kamba (PDP, Kebbi), the House Committee Chairman on Pension Matters, lamented that the minister had ignored several letters sent to her to appear before the committee to explain how the pension fund is being spent
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had raised the allegation of the missing money in a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan
The details of the budget recently laid before the two Chambers of the National Assembly by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, shows that the entire State House will spend N8,739,307,625 billion in 2014
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, who doubles as the Coordinator of the Economy, was billed to brief the committee on the state of the economy shortly after laying the 2014 budget before the two chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday
The Minister expressed delight that President Jonathan found her worthy of laying the budget before the lawmakers
Jonathan has been at loggerheads with the National Assembly over the benchmark for crude oil
Okonjo-Iweala said contrary to media reports, no money was missing from the N816 billion SURE-P funds generated between February 2012 and September 2013
In a letter read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, the President noted that the oil price benchmark passed by the House of Representatives is higher than that of the Senate, saying there was the need to comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Act
She also denied the allegation by the Rivers State Government that she refused to sign a $200 million African Development Bank loan for water projects in Rivers State
From the argument between a member of the Joint Senate Committee of Finance and Appropriations, Senator Ita Enang, and Okonjo-Iweala, it also came to the fore that about $1.03 billion might be missing from the ECA account
Okonjo-Iweala said ASUU has introduced lies and politics into its strike, which is in its fourth month.
She said the union has been distributing flyers riddled with lies in mosques in the North
The teachers are insisting on the 2009 agreement, which they say President Goodluck Jonathan was part of
Okonjo-Iweala expressed this fear at a news conference on the outcome of the Commonwealth Ministers of Finance Meeting at the ongoing Annual Meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary fund in Washington DC, United States of America
The new twist the festering crisis took has led to the death of a youth leader, who allegedly flexed muscle with some stern looking soldiers deployed to the locality
The ministers stated this during a High Level discussion chaired by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the sidelines of the ongoing 68th session of the United Nations in New York, United States of America