Despite the various Acts enacted by OBJ's administration to curb corruption such as Fiscal Responsibility Act,2007, Public Procurement Bureau, EFCC, ICPC and the due process office; corruption has continued to strive.

The coordinating minister has failed on her part to manage the Nigerian economy despite her various achievements in reviving other regional countries econonmy. This has shown that corruption was the watch-word in her administration.

Anyway, goodluck to her.

Good one Mr Anozie Chimnonso. Let it be known henceforth, that the years of propaganda by a certain section of a country against anything or person not in their good books or favourable to their cause is long gone and buried. Nobody has the monopoly of OPDS (Operation Pull Down Syndrome) again in this tribalistic country.

ok

shachris02:

It is pertinent to note that prior to securing the debt write-off, Nigeria was groaning under the burden of one billion dollars per-annum debt servicing portfolio, where this amount is spent servicing debts without the principal being touched.

This part got me. We currently spend almost a trillion naira servicing debt under her watch. What difference did she make.

I don't even think the Yorubas replying on this thread read the article at all especially the one that said he'll sign both petition.

Do this people realize the article is saying that someone started a petition requesting the degree of the person that started the petition against NOI to be taken from him?

Anyway I can now see why the Yoruba guy is hating on NOI award. So all he could achieve, despite his years, is a post baccalaureate certificate in Administration and Supervision. No f2king wonder. NOI with a PhD from MIT and children, younger than the guy that started the petition, are both medical doctors. I don't blame him, I would hate too if I was him.

Anyway, let them continue jor

NOI prestigious background
Masters from Harvard University
PhD from MIT
Honorary Doctorate from Brown University
Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College
Honorary Doctorate from Colby College
Honorary Doctorate from Northern Caribbean University
Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College
And now Honorary Doctorate from Yale University.
And much more in the future.

holder:
I signed dis petition personally on sahararep on d withdrawal of dat annoying award given to dat frog faced woman

Haba take it easy na can your mother be described as a frog faced woman or has your mother ever achieved a pinch of what she's achieved in life?

Flets:
Nigeria is a land inhabited by frustrated illiterates.

Even dummies who have zero ideas about the workings of an economy will join in signing a petition driven by naive, tribally-laced, illiterate intentions.

The world is not as stupid as us. They understand our society better than us. Our apathy to governance cannot influence the objectivity of a prestigious institution like Yale.

Very well said bro, may God Bless your hustle for being objective in your input on the subject matter.

pikin wey say e mama no go sleep, him too no go sleep....

Five myths about phone charging www.nairaland.com/2332779/5-phone-charging-myths-debunked#34026683

Five myths about phone charging www.nairaland.com/2332779/5-phone-charging-myths-debunked#34026683

Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala Receive Award From World Best Harvard University by tochukwuifeduba: 3:05pm
SIGN THE PETITION BELOW IF YOU SUPPORT THE CALL TO IGNORE THOSE CALLING FOR THE YALE UNIVERSITY AWARD OF NGOZI IWEALA TO BE WITHDRAWN.. https://www.change.org/p/yale-university-ignore-the-call-for-stripping-dr-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-of-the-doctorate-of-humane-letters-presented-to-her-on-monday-may-18-2015-during-yale-s-commencement-ceremony-in-new-haven-connecticut-alongside-eight-others?recruiter=57068101&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-no_src-no_msg&fb_ref=Default


Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a globally renowned Nigerian economist best known for her two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria (her current position) and for her work at the World Bank, including several years as one of its Managing Directors (October 2007 – July 2011). She briefly held the position of Foreign Minister of Nigeria in 2006.


In 2007, Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.Subsequently, in 2012, she became one of three candidates in the race to replace World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the end of his term of office in June 2012.On 16 April 2012 it was announced that she had been unsuccessful in her bid for the World Bank presidency, having lost to the US nominee, Jim Yong Kim. This outcome had been widely anticipated.[6] However, this was the first contested election for World Bank president after the demise in 2010 of the Gentlemen's agreement that the US would appoint the World Bank president and Europe would appoint the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.


Okonjo-Iweala is an Igbo from Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, where her father Professor Chukuka Okonjo is the Obi (King) from the Umu Obi Obahai Royal Family of Ogwashi-Uku.

Okonjo-Iweala was educated at the International School Ibadan and Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with an AB in 1977, and earned her PhD in regional economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981. She received an International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) that supported her doctoral studies.[9] She is married to Ikemba Iweala from Umuahia, Abia State,and they have four children. The eldest, Onyinye Iweala received her PhD in Experimental Pathology from Harvard University in 2008 and graduated Harvard Medical School in 2010. Her son, Uzodinma Iweala, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Beasts of No Nation (2005) and the newly released thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa [Our Kind of People] (2012).

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group
Prior to her ministerial career in Nigeria, Okonjo-Iweala was vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group. She left it in 2003 after she was appointed to President Obasanjo's cabinet as Finance Minister on 15 July 2003.

In October 2005, she led the Nigerian team that struck a deal with the Paris Club, a group of bilateral creditors, to pay a portion of Nigeria's external debt (US$12 billion) in return for an $18 billion debt write-off. Prior to the partial debt payment and write-off, Nigeria spent roughly US$1 billion every year on debt servicing, without making a dent in the principal owed. However, following years of mismanagement under her watch, the combined domestic and external debt of the Federal Government is in excess of $40 billion by the end of 2014. Add to this the fact that abandoned capital projects littered all over the country amount to over $50 billion. No word yet on other huge contingent liabilities. If oil prices continue to fall, it was said that Nigeria will soon have a heavy debt burden even with low debt to GDP ratio.

Okonjo-Iweala also introduced the practice of publishing each state's monthly financial allocation from the federal government in the newspapers. This action went a long way in increasing transparency in governance. She was instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's. Nigeria is considered to have defaulted on its sovereign debt in 1983 (debt rescheduling is considered a type of default by rating agencies).

Some controversy surrounded Okonjo-Iweala's appointment as Finance Minister, and that of Foreign Affairs minister, Olu Adeniji, United Nations over the payment of their salary in dollars. Okonjo Iweala and Olu Adeniji were paid US$240,000, compared with their own $6,000 base salary. The controversy was spearheaded by reform-minded media reports, although Okonjo-Iweala felt that her critics were unjustified because of the temporary nature of the payment, which came out of the donor-supported Diaspora Fund negotiated by the Nigerian government.[14] On Friday, 20 July 2007, the Court of Appeal ruled that the salary payment was not done within the ambit of Nigeria's laws, and directed her and Adeniji to pay back the excess to the account of the state.

Both Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government of Nigeria have appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and judgement is pending. The appeal is on the basis that the appeal court made its judgment due to erroneous information provided to it that the Nigerian government was making the salary payments, when in fact it was not.

She resigned as Nigeria's Foreign Minister on 3 August 2006 following her sudden removal as head of Nigeria's Economic Team by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. She left that administration at the end of August 2006.[citation needed]

On 4 October 2007, World Bank President Robert Zoellick appointed her to the post of managing director, effective 1 December 2007.

In 2011, Okonjo-Iweala was reappointed as Minister of Finance with the expanded portfolio of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy by President Goodluck Jonathan. She took a lot of heat, more-so than any other government official for the unpopular fuel subsidy removal policy by the Nigerian government which led to Occupy Nigeria protests in January 2012.

During her confirmation as a Minister, she stressed the need to reduce the country's recurrent expenditure which is presently 74% of the National Budget and embark on capital projects which could improve the 14% unemployment rate in the country.In her role as the Coordinating Minister For the Economy and Minister of Finance, she has extensive influence/exercise to shape the direction of the Jonathan economic team and the transformation agenda.This indubitably makes Okonjo-Iweala responsible for the success or failure of Mr. Jonathan's economic policies. Under her watch, Nigeria overtook South Africa as the largest economy in Africa with a GDP of 510 billion dollars. Unfortunately, it is widely believed that things are not going well with Nigeria's economy. The country's foreign reserves instead of increasing is actually grossly below what Jonathan's administration inherited despite an average oil price of between $105 – $120 during this period. President Olusegun Obasanjo met about $5 billion in foreign reserves, and the average monthly oil price for the 72 months he was in office was $38, he left $43 billion in foreign reserves after paying $12 billion to write off Nigeria's external debt. In an article a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and a world class economist, said that by his calculation, if the economy had been properly managed, the nation's foreign reserves, which now stand at about $30 billion, should have been between $102 and $118 billion and the exchange rate around N112 before the fall in oil prices towards the end of 2014. He said even with the fall in oil price, objectively, the reserves should be around $90 billion and exchange rate, not higher than N125 per US dollar.

In 2007, Okonjo-Iweala's NGO, NOI Global Consulting, partnered with the Gallup Organization to introduce an opinion poll, the NOI poll, into the Nigerian polity.[19] She is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.[20] Okonjo-Iweala also serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity and on the board of directors of the World Resources Institute.

In 2011 Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was called back to Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan to head the economic team as Nigeria's Finance minister. It was from this position that she contested the presidency of the World Bank. She received support for her ultimately unsuccessful campaign from a number of former World Bank employees and from publications including The Economist, The Financial Times and Newsweek, which said: "If competition follows normal process, Kim stands no chance [against Ngozi Okonjo Iweala]."[citation needed]. Nigeria's BusinessDay newspaper also published an article ("World Bank Presidency – a question of politics or ability?"winkby guest writer, Olu Omoyele, in which he states that Okonjo-Iweala's "credentials for the job are...outstanding" and added that "she has a well developed network of academic, political and economic relationships across the world which should aid her in dealing with the challenges an institution like the World Bank."

shachris02:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/twist-in-petition-to-withdraw-okonjo-iwealas-yale-doctorate-shoots-up-to-4-581/210062/

The thunder that would fire a lot of these people- especially okonjo iweala is, still doing press up- credit for no just reason- the then national assembly, that said they were not paying back should be the ones -we should be thanking, they were legislating that we are not going to pay back again and if Obasanjo decided to pay, they would impeach him, he then told her to go and negotiate a debt relief- we were owing $42b then and we were just paying the interest- when she came she negotiated that we pay only $18b and clean our slate- now we are owing close to $60b and people stole N10trillion under her watch- fuel is scarce and government can't pay for supposed subsidy* subsidy figures are in excess of 3 state budgets - water is being sold to nigerian's and money is being released before projects are executed, her economics has been from answer to question* and they are talking about her supposed benefits-

Flets:
Nigeria is a land inhabited by frustrated illiterates.

Even dummies who have zero ideas about the workings of an economy will join in signing a petition driven by naive, tribally-laced, illiterate intentions.

The world is not as stupid as us. They understand our society better than us. Our apathy to governance cannot influence the objectivity of a prestigious institution like Yale.

This is one of our problems in Nigeria, how can u just assume the people that signed the petition are illiterate or biased. If you are not being biased yourself can you evaluate the economic situation of the country. I don't need a phd in econs to know the country is bleeped. About half of the states can not pay salaries to civil servants, federal govt can not pay salaries, no money to settle oil marketers and resolve the oil scarcity. Sir I am proud to tell you I signed that petition because am convinced the coordinating minister of Nigerias economy has Failed woefully

Yale University do not need to withdraw it, they should just change it to Honorary Disagreement Award!

because that's what it is right now, we Nigerians disagree.

jimmy2k:
Yorubas cowards cospiracy

can't you think beyond tribalism? Later you'll start playing victim.

kenny091:

This is one of our problems in Nigeria, how can u just assume the people that signed the petition are illiterate or biased. If you are not being biased yourself can you evaluate the economic situation of the country. I don't need a phd in econs to know the country is bleeped. About half of the states can not pay salaries to civil servants, federal govt can not pay salaries, no money to settle oil marketers and resolve the oil scarcity. Sir I am proud to tell you I signed that petition because am convinced the coordinating minister of Nigerias economy has Failed woefully

Then if yale refuse to honour your petition, what next?

dunkem21:
NOI ..Anu ana agba egbe, O na ata nri.

kenny091:

This is one of our problems in Nigeria, how can u just assume the people that signed the petition are illiterate or biased. If you are not being biased yourself can you evaluate the economic situation of the country. I don't need a phd in econs to know the country is bleeped. About half of the states can not pay salaries to civil servants, federal govt can not pay salaries, no money to settle oil marketers and resolve the oil scarcity. Sir I am proud to tell you I signed that petition because am convinced the coordinating minister of Nigerias economy has Failed woefully

Europe went through an economic crunch not long ago..... would it be right to say that all the finance and cordinating ministers across europe were substandard and failed.

Once a black man finds someone to blame, his brains ceases to work. Governance and economy cannot be traced to a single individual. ..... go figure.

holder:
I signed dis petition personally on sahararep on d withdrawal of dat annoying award given to dat frog faced woman

And your mother's face is like beyounce own abi.

Ewu

Yoruba people and bad bele are simply inseparable.

Yorubbish

I now understand y d yorubas and hausa's insult d Igbos.Am and Igbo man bt truth b told,Okonjo has failed Nigerians.She shld ave taUt of her integrity b4 allowing d GEJ govt Spoil her image.She kept on lyin 2 Nigerians abt our Economy.

Under Iwealla, Nigeria's economy surpassed South Africa's for the first time. But part of Yoruba and media it controlls says it's a lie told by Western Financial institutions to promote Iwealla.
Those Yoruba and their media promoted Buhari (Lol) candidacy to sack Iwealla. Iwealla is going but some Yoruba would not let up.

Maybe she bribed the university

If them like make dem give her professorate degree on stealing is not corruption.
That won't stop her from fresh enrollment in lockup degree at kirikiri university of corrupt practice

This Sunday sef, want enter news. What has Sunday done for Nigeria ?

So you created a new username just to bash Yorubas?

Yorubbish:
Yoruba people and bad bele are simply inseparable.


Yorubbish

shachris02:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/twist-in-petition-to-withdraw-okonjo-iwealas-yale-doctorate-shoots-up-to-4-581/210062/

But if the out going administration failed, Ngozi failed with the administration, or would goodluck alone take all the fault for failure?

If goodluck regime did well, ngozi would have taken from the praises, now goodluck is going down, nobody wants to go with him.. Little wonder they say success has plenty fathers but Failure is an orphan..

Poor Goodluck, even Ngozi doesn't want to go with you..

Goodluck has been completely left in the cold..

The goodluck story would be a story that would linger for long.

Its a story that won't vanish from the National archieves for century to come.

After goodluck fell, Ngozi felt its only right for her stock to appreciate same way Dezieani was caught at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport Chasing after President Elect Muhammadu Buhari on his way to London on a British airways airline 4:30am friday morning.

Its so unfortunate the 4 women Goodluck surrounded himself with aren't just ready to go down just yet with him..

What a world!!!

Stella Oduah is back up in the senate,
Deazinani is lobbying abdusalam and Buhari all over,
Ngozi is seeking further recognition from Yale but Jonathan is going to Otuoke

Eve was truly wiser than Adam..

Iwealla was in charge of economy when OBJ doubled as President and Petroleum Minister for years with Kupolati as NNPC boss.

Some Yoruba and its media did not raise dust against OBJ's unjustified occupation of position of oil minister.

Yoruba have used its media to insult Deziani, Iwealla, Jonathan and his southeast ministers all the years.

shachris02:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/twist-in-petition-to-withdraw-okonjo-iwealas-yale-doctorate-shoots-up-to-4-581/210062/

. When an evil man digs a hole he falls into it!

PStacks:



But if the out going administration failed, Ngozi failed with the administration, or would goodluck alone take all the fault for failure?

If goodluck regime did well, ngozi would have taken from the praises, now goodluck is going down, nobody wants to go with him.. Little wonder they say success has plenty fathers but Failure is an orphan..

Poor Goodluck, even Ngozi doesn't want to go with you..

Goodluck has been completely left in the cold..

The goodluck story would be a story that would linger for long.

Its a story that won't vanish from the National archieves for century to come.

After goodluck fell, Ngozi felt its only right for her stock to appreciate same way Dezieani was caught at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport Chasing after President Elect Muhammadu Buhari on his way to London on a British airways airline 4:30am friday morning.

Its so unfortunate the 4 women Goodluck surrounded himself with aren't just ready to go down just yet with him..

What a world!!!

Stella Oduah is back up in the senate,
Deazinani is lobbying abdusalam and Buhari all over,
Ngozi is seeking further recognition from Yale but Jonathan is going to Otuoke

Eve was truly wiser than Adam..

Don't judge success or failure of Jonathan administration, or any administration, based on information produced by SW editors who control all of Nigeria's media.

WAIT FOR WHAT SW'S CHOICE, BUHARI, SHALL ACHIEVE BEFORE JUFGEMENT; EVEN THOUGH WHATEVER NORTHERN PEOPLE DO AGAINST NIGERIA AMOUNTS TO NO SIN FOR PEOPLE OF SW REGION.

Nigeria,a country inhabited and populated by over 70% dummies. People just follow the crowd mentality to do things;they don't have a mind of their own. They respond to critical issues affecting the nation,with sentiments rather than logic. Today,some people see OBJ as a hero,but are so quick to condemn the PDP and blame the party for all the country's woes. They claim PDP did nothing in 16 yrs but forget the fact that the OBJ they call hero,was in charge of PDP for 8 out of 16yrs. This obviously means their hero destroyed Nigeria for good 8 yrs.

Today,they call NOI all manner of names all because she served in GEJ's govt. But they fail to acknowlege the role she played in stabilizing the Nigerian economy during the OBJ years. They have suddenly forgotten how She helped Nigeria exit the Paris club debt to the tune of 30billion dollars. Majority of the people signing petitions against Her,do not even realized that the institution that gave her the award,is an ivy league school and must have done proper research on Her performance,before awarding her with the degree.

I have said it before and I'd say it again;the generation that will destroyy this country Nigeria,is this present generation. This generation have the best of resources that the world has ever known,to enable them find out information and gain knowledge within the shortest possible time frame. Yet,this generation do not have as much information/knowledge/intellectual prowess like the previous generations had. This means that they have virtually little or nothing to pass down to the upcoming generation cos they can't give what they do not have. This being said,how would the generation next look like? Can anyone see why I say the future of Nigeria looks bleak?

justianoo:
I now understand y d yorubas and hausa's insult d Igbos.Am and Igbo man bt truth b told,Okonjo has failed Nigerians.She shld ave taUt of her integrity b4 allowing d GEJ govt Spoil her image.She kept on lyin 2 Nigerians abt our Economy.

You are the most Stupeeeed of Yorrober or Awusaaa.