The teachers are insisting on the 2009 agreement, which they say President Goodluck Jonathan was part of
Browsing: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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
The event was witnessed by four South-East state governors of Abia (Theodore Orji), Anambra (Peter Obi), Ebonyi (Martin Elechi) and Enugu (Sullivan Chime)
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, made this known while inaugurating the Ministry of Finance Implementation Committee on IPPIS/GIFMIS
The minister said all monies appropriated for constituency projects would be warehoused in an account at the Central Bank of Nigeria pending the readiness of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to execute the projects
President Jonathan, who said he was not billed to speak but just to make the presentation, however, took exception to the average marks awarded the Ministers of National Planning, Samsudeen Usman, and his Trade and Investment counterpart, Olusegun Aganga, by a national daily
The main part of the campaign is the claim that the minister is pursuing an Igbo agenda because she has appointed many Igbos as heads of agencies under her ministry. To support this false thesis, they cite as examples the following South Easterners in such positions: Mustapha Chike Obi- DG AMCON; Arunma Oteh- DG, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Abraham Nwankwo- DG, Debt Management Office and Osita Onyema- DG Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)
A communiqué issued by the Technical Sub-Committee of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee through the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday showed that the distributable revenue for the month was N500.460 billion
The memo for the proposal, to be presented by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will be for Nigeria to issue $1 billion Eurobond, $100 million Diaspora bond, and N80 billion Federal Government bond
During her first stint as Minister of Finance, she exhibited the same doggedness, which earned her international acclaim and sparked off the reform spree in the Nigerian economy. In 2003, she succeeded in reducing Nigeria’s debt burden from $30 billion to $12 billion. This remains the only time the Paris Club has allowed a debtor nation to buy back its debt below par
At the occasion, Okonjo-Iweala charged the new Board to ensure that the Capital Market proceeds in the direction that will be beneficial to the country’s economy
The appointment was announced by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in a statement by her Special Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu