Tag: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Account For Missing N30 Trillion, APC Challenges Okonjo-Iweala
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has challenged Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the…
Voodoo Economics
By Oyebanji Gbenga Economy is still the best indicator to measure the success of any government. GDP, jobs, wages and…
Okonjo-Iweala ‘needs serious help’ – Prof. Charles Soludo
Professor Charles Soludo, former Central Bank of Nigeria governor believes that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the…
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N30 trillion missing under Okonjo’s watch, says Soludo
By Professor Chukwuma Soludo Former CBN governor, Soludo responds to his virulent attack by finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, after his…
Soludo an embittered loser in search of relevance, says Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has reacted to former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Professor Charles Soludo’s scoresheet on President…
$30bn not missing from Excess Crude Accounts, Okonjo blasts Oshiomhole
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says 30 billion dollars is not missing from the Excess Crude Account as…
Okonjo-Iweala assures civil servants of December salaries
The Federal Government on Monday assured workers that payment of December salaries would take effect soon as it had started…
Okonjo-Iweala denies 1bn dollars missing from Excess Crude Acct
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Wednesday said that there was no money missing from the Excess Crude…
Austerity Measure: FG To Sack 60,000 ‘Ghost Workers’
Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said on Thursday that the Federal Government would weed out 60,000 “ghost workers” from the…
Nigeria’s Alarming Debt Profile
The debt profile of Nigeria is beginning to reach an alarming height, throwing up discomfort among the citizens of the…
Nigeria’s Waning Oilmoon And The Ways Of The Ant
By Peter Claver Opara Few days ago, the opaque Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs.…
FG May Sack Workers, Says Okonjo-Iweala
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Government may be forced to embark on cost cutting measures like retrenching workers in some of…
Revenue Allocation: Amaechi accuses Okonjo-Iweala, FG of massive corruption
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers state governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has accused the federal government of massive corruption and inability to draw…
Nigeria is not broke – Okonjo-Iweala
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, has assured Nigerians that the economy is growing positively in spite of the…
Okonjo-Iweala lauds FG’s rail projects
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday commended the progress made so far in the construction of the…
Okonjo-Iweala proffers solution to ending corruption
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday urged structural institutions in federal, state and local governments to help…
Boko Haram: Britain Must Give More Help To Nigeria
By Gordon Brown It’s not only the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls that need our help, but every girl that the terrorists…
UN Envoy Vows To Rebuild Chibok Schools
UN education envoy Gordon Brown on Tuesday pledged that a school from where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by…
Hike In Tariffs On Imported Vehicles
The increase in the tariffs on imported vehicles has been generating a hot debate among stakeholders. While it has been…
Defence sector gets N130bn in 4 months
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Friday said the Federal Government disbursed N130.7 billion to the defence sector…
Nigerians want Confab recommendations subjected to referendum – NOI Poll
An opinion poll conducted by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Polls popularly known as NOIPolls, has revealed that 79 per cent of respondents…
Fayemi Slams Okonjo-Iweala Over Voodoo Opinion Poll
Eromosele Ebhomele The John Kayode Fayemi (JKF) Campaign Organisation, the campaign group of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, western…
GDP rebasing was not done for optimism or pessimism – Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance on Friday said the of rebasing Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was neither for…
Nigerian Rebasing And The Making Of A Phantom Economy
By Peter Claver Oparah And so storm tossed and weather beaten Nigerians woke up on Saturday, 5 April to hear…
10 Africans Win Innovation Prize
Eromosele Ebhomele The African Innovation Foundation, AIF, has announced 10 finalists of the prestigious Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2014.…
Time To Seek Alternative Power Sources
Despite the ongoing reforms in the electricity sector, power supply is yet to improve. The distribution companies (Discos) in particular…
1.8m people enter job market annually- Okonjo-Iweala
Minister for Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has confirmed that not less than 1.8 million graduates in the country move into…
Nigeria expands Sovereign Wealth Fund with $550mn
Nigeria’s Federal Government said on Monday that it has added $550m to the country’s sovereign wealth funds managed by the…
Saraki blames National Assembly for improper budget scrutiny
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A Nigerian senator representing one of the districts of Kwara state has attributed the impunity with which the…
Okonjo-Iweala: Africa needs to tackle corruption, not trivialise it
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, was guest speaker at a TEDxEuston forum last December, where she discussed the…