9ja we love over hyping what more can she bring to table than what she did in her 3 years in government. Our problem is not personality, technocrat or politician. But SINCERITY of purpose.

Sagamite:

Whilst I have a lot of respect for this woman (based on her capability and intentions) and I applaud the plan, I think it is healthy that after 4 years of this, there is someone appointed with slightly differing view to hers to a position that allows the person to act as a balance and challenger of rationale.

It will not be too healthy to have someone dictate our financial policy on a long term basis without challenge. Most human beings are fallible, no matter how good they are.

If not, there should be a community of her peers to make decisions.

cap28:

Can someone plse explain to me why they think this woman is a good choice, for starters i'd like to know how the average nigerian benefitted from the $12 billion payment she made to the Paris club in PART payment of nigeria's debt in 2007 ? Did the living standards of the average nigerian improve after that massive chunk of money was paid in the space of ONE YEAR to foreign creditors?
Is there any likelihood that the living standards of the average nigerian will improve with her in this position?
What exactly is her long term objective for the nigerian economy? will she be recommending the sale of MORE of nigeria's public services to GEJ's buddies and foreign investors for pennies? Will she be recommending that the naira be devalued in accordance with her masters over at the IMF and the world bank? Will she be recommending even more draconian IMF structural adjustment policies in accordance with her masters instructions over in washington in order to keep nigeria on a permanent downward economic spiral?

Interesting questions i must say but Im afraid U wont get any interesting answers. e are still starry eyed about the idea of a workd bank staff among us.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigeria's first female Finance Minister wants to make sure her country's petrodollars help people

"Monkey they work, baboon they chop" goes an old Nigerian saying. The people work while their leaders eat. Not Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Nigeria's combative Finance Minister has rolled up her sleeves since her appointment last year by President Olusegun Obasanjo. A former World Bank vice president, Okonjo-Iweala, 50, was lured back from Washington to her oil-rich yet impoverished West African nation of 130 million to fix its chaotic finances and clean up corruption. The bottom line: the Nigerian government exported $20 billion worth of oil last year, but its people still scrape by on an average wage of just a dollar a day. Okonjo-Iweala's mission is to make sure more of those billions go to roads, schools and health care.

Fixing Africa's broken giant is no easy task. Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International ranks Nigeria the second most corrupt place in the world, after Bangladesh. Oil money has often been wasted in kickbacks and bribes. The country's economy has struggled with years of mismanagement. Okonjo-Iweala, who studied at Harvard and M.I.T., has begun trimming Nigeria's bloated civil service, cut fuel subsidies and begun accounting for all the money the government spends. She has also helped set up an antifraud team to crack down on "419" letter and Internet advance-fee scams, which bilk everyone from unsuspecting pensioners to large banks by convincing them to part with their money on the promise of a cut of hidden "millions." The team has already caught more than 500 people.

Yet to hear her tell it, she's on the receiving end. "I've been very grateful for what my life has become," says Okonjo-Iweala. "My motivation is to take whatever knowledge I have and put it to the use of my country." Other ministers, who earn around $6,000 a year, initially questioned her hefty (more than $240,000) salary, paid by the United Nations in a program to repatriate Nigeria's best brains. The scam artists want to kill her, she says, because they don't like her meddling. But Okonjo-Iweala, a mother of four, can play tough too. When President Obasanjo announced he had removed the vital budget and planning departments from her ministry, Okonjo-Iweala quit, returning only when the President backed down.

Improving Nigeria's image, she says, is as important as fixing its economy. "It is a sense of anger that drives me. Anger that this country [and] the Nigerians that I know are being maligned by a small percentage," she says. "You have to do something to clean this up. You can't always look up to other people do to it. The fight begins with you." And with that, she gets back to work.
— By Simon Robinson, With Gilbert Da Costa/Abuja

show us from satellite.  you cant make statement without prove. even the amount paid to imo and abia state. is too much ,  

and I doubt if she understand what longitude and latitude is?  The way her ministry allocated the oil derivation shows, her geography has problem.

I think she never find out how much oil each state produced. she just gave them numbers based on state she like or not.



she was only trying to help her husband people in abia state by making the claim. she was just been emotional

I laugh in zebrudaya english.

namfav:

she doesn't have the character or charisma to lead the country

Sagamite:

What character or charisma is required to lead the country?

namfav:

when she was minster of foreign affairs she sulked, politicians do not sulk lol, politics is serious business, she may have worked overseas but so did sanusi, dr mansour and many other nigerian economists that means nothing, some people are not born with leadership skills where they study means nothing she is an obviously educated woman but she doesn't have the character and charisma, very few people in nigeria will take her siously