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Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon Mays Scholar and received a number of prizes for his writing, including the Eager Prize, the Horman Prize, the Le Baron Briggs Prize, and the Hoopes P[b]rize, awarded for outstanding undergraduate thesis.[/b] He lives in New York City.

http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/29377/Uzodinma_Iweala/index.aspx

And also a Mellon Mays scholar (scholarship)

hercules07:
@Nchara

So why were you guys saying her children are loaded when they are paying loans back, and does it make sense to you that NOI with all her wealth will allow her children to go and take some loans, bros try something else, your stories are not adding up.
Nchara abeg give us links to where the MD and PhD guy got scholarships, not all MDs and PhDs are on scholarship now haba.

Stop clutching at straw. They likely did not take loans. They had scholarships. You don't read, do you?
At the PG level, you [b]100% [/b]will get a scholarship in the USA unless you are a dunce.

Even for the loans people pay back, you pay little amounts monthly over time. Its not like you hand in your monthly salary as pay back every month.
Two of her kids are doctors, meaning they earn well over 100K per annum

The son was also a Radcliff Fellow

http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/fellows.aspx

tpia@:
my own post is referring to med school.

The daughter has MD and PhD
For MD, you also get scholarships if you are smart and those are smart kids like their parents.

Any of her kids with an MS/PhD was definitely on scholarship/fellowship/teaching or research assistantship

And all of them seem to have advanced degrees.

Vaccine-Induced Antibody Isotypes Are Skewed by Impaired CD4 T Cell and Invariant NKT Cell Effector Responses in MyD88-Deficient Mice1

    Onyinye I. Iweala 2 , * ,
    Donald W. Smith 2 , * ,
    Kabir S. Matharu * ,
    Isabel Sada-Ovalle ‡ ,
    Deanna D. Nguyen † ,
    Rosemarie H. DeKruyff § ,
    Dale T. Umetsu § ,
    Samuel M. Behar ‡ and
    Cathryn R. Nagler 3

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant DK 55678, the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Grant DK 43551), and Predoctoral [b]Training Fellowships [/b]T32 A107529 (to D.W.S.) and F31 AI054229 (to O.I.I.)

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/183/4/2252.short

So the daughter seems to have had an NIH grant for her PhD
Could be some 20 to 30 K per month.

Hercules

Students also take loans for their studies and pay back over time
We are not talking about Nigeria okay?

Hercules

In the USA, no postgraduate student pays their own tuition fee
You either get a teaching/research assistant or you get a full scholarship

You are inexperienced and most likely one local jew man holed up in Ibadan.

hercules07:
@Nchara

I am still loading your PDF, I do not see where her son was on scholarship in your write up, can you highlight it, the NOI-Polls was set up by her so she is probably spending money on it and not earning anything from it.
Net Salary being $357,000 negates what is on the internet as per salaries at the World Bank, abeg can we have an independent link like that of FT or other reputable organisations?
@efisher
How many people who work at the World bank earn 500K per day, we are talking about Ngozi not some other people abeg.

NOI will always get funds to work. She is in collaboration with Gallup USA. She cannot be paying her staff with her salary

And AIST where she is the board chair?

Google her son and follow his study history. You need info, get it yourself.

Her daughter was  a 2001 UNCF/Merck Undergraduate Fellow (this is a scholarship position) and with such attainment you get even more scholarships for PG studies.

tpia@:
Was she the one who married a white man or was that akinyuli.

Both her and Dora' daughter did.

Dr. Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[1] and Rolling Stone.

The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and also attended Harvard College at Harvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004.[2] While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003.[3] He is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 2011.[4]

He won the New York Public Library's 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.

Again, on her son. With such pedigree, he was definitely on scholarships

hercules07:
I am not accusing her of buying the house, I am almost certain that she did not (though there is question mark on the debt forgiveness consultancy), her children went to schools that cost $56,000 per annum on tuition talk less of other things, she no dey pay tax? Abeg fear God nau. Do not bring tribe into this, we are discussing NOI and a 1.2 billion naira house.
Bros most of those institute stuff are pro bono work and even if she earns, it is usually a pittance that is heavlily taxed. Let her declare her assets, is she not a public official?

Her net pay I showed was after tax. You don't know hat net pay means?

No, Bono was just one aspect. Please read through all my posts to see the different things she does.
Her kids were on scholarship. Abi you no know wetin scholar mean again?

Another avenue for legit money for Ngozi

http://www.noi-polls.net/Main-text/about-us.html


The woman is simply all over the place. I would not come to Nigeria if I were her.

NMI (Nelson Mandela Institute, Abuja)

Board of Directors

NMI's BoD is chaired by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (former Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Managing Director, World Bank). It is made up of H. E. Joachim Chissano (former President of the Republic of Mozambique); Professor Peter Anyang'Nyong'o (Minister for Medical Affairs, Kenya); Dr. Frannie Léautier (Managing Partner, The Fezembat Group); Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (former Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria); Pierre Sane (Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO); and Paatii Ofosu-Amaah (Special Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank).

http://aust-abuja.org/about/governance-and-organization

Does she not earn some pay here?

hercules07:
@Nchara

With a Salary of $357,000 hope you know it will take her 21 years of not touching her salary to get $8  million dollars, was it sand they used to pay for their children prestigious education? Abeg try something else jare, just pray that she does not own any $8m house in Nigeria as that shows that she is as corrupt as dem dem.

And her family members? And her other engagements I listed above (and now below). Are you blind? In Igboland women do things in concert with family. We are not talking about Yoruba women who do hide and seek .

And again I ask you, did she actually buy the house?

All am doing here is just academic exercise.

The kids were on scholarship. You can see they also won several awards. Poverty is  a bad thing. You appear to be a poor man

Dr. Ikemba I Iweala MD practices family practice in Washington, District of Columbia. Dr. Iweala graduated with an MD 37 years ago.

http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-ikemba-iweala-3kkp9

And the husband too

Between them all (if not Ngozi herself alone) they can afford that house and more.

The eldest, Onyinye Iweala received her Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from Harvard University in 2008 and graduated Harvard Medical School in 2010

Her daughter too is not left out

Dr. Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[1] and Rolling Stone.

The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and also attended Harvard College at Harvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004.[2] While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003.[3] He is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 2011.[4]

He won the New York Public Library's 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.[5]

Her son is also loaded

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.[9] She is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.[10] Okonjo-Iweala also serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity[11] a[b]nd on the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute[/b].[12]

She is also the board chair at the AIST in Abuja

Apparently money comes also from her other activities.

doctokwus:
If she owns any such building in her name,she wud not b returning to any world institution bc she will not b able to withstand d scrutiny of her source of funds

Its all rumor, dude.

Some controversy surrounded Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as Finance Minister, and that of Foreign Affairs minister, Olu Adeniji, as other ministers were resentful of their United Nations salaries of over 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.[6] 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 appeals court made its judgement due to erroneous information provided to it that the Nigerian government was making the salary payments, when in fact it was not.

Above was her previous salary in Nigeria



And,

She was the second highest-paid person at the world bank: Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director net salary (351,740) ANNUAL BANK GROUP
CONTRIBUTION TO PENSION PLAN (76,996)   ANNUAL BANK GROUP CONTRIBUTION TO OTHER BENEFITS (77,735)

NET= AFTER TAX and that was for 2009. Any salary increases since then?

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTAR2009/Resources/6223977-1252950831873/AR09_Remuneration.pdf

Plus contribution from her husband
Plus her kids
plus loans that anyone can take to do what they want. She is a collateral onto her self

hercules07:
@Nchara

I know many well known surgeons in the US who can not afford this, heck, I know one of only a few brain surgeons who is a Nigerian and he is definitely not living in an $8m dollar house.

@Manny

How much does she earn? I know she does not earn enough to buy an $8 million house and has not written a book that sold as much as Obama's books.

You can find her salary at the world bank. It is public knowledge. Do some googling. You already believe the story, right?

She has been in the WB for 21 years and counting and most of those years have been at the management cadre.

BTW, if a world bank MD does not have 8 million USD, or cannot get a loan to that effect (in part or whole), then what is the worth of working with the WB at that level?

Plus:
Her husband who is a well known med doctor in the USA
Her children who are doing great

Anyways, this one na ogbonge rumor until proven otherwise

hercules07:
Abeg do not insult our intelligence, people should tell us how much she earns for her to have 1.2billion naira to spend on a house, that is $8 million, are you guys for real, only hollywood stars and the ilk own such things, if she indeed owns an $8m house, then she has been dipping her hand into the bloody jar.

Does she really own the house? Which house are we talking about? Address, photo, evidence, etc. Do you blame her for the news or do you blame the journalist for a shoddy job?

The link is not even working. Why am I responding to a suspect thread?

Yeske!:
If indeed she bought the house, she  is certainly a rougue. How much is her salary at the WB and as fin. minister?

She earned more than 250 to 300 K pa in the WB
Her husband is a well known med doctor here
Her children are doing great
She did not buy the house; there is no evidence she did and she has denied it
And, how much is 1.2 billion in USD?

http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152131:ngozi-denies-buying-n12bn-abuja-mansion&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8

Ngozi denies buying N1.2bn Abuja mansion

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Written by Nuruddeen M. Abdallah Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:02
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[Minister of Finance Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]

Minister of Finance Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday denied reports by an online medium saying that she bought a N1.2 billion mansion in Maitama, Abuja.
In a statement signed by her Senior Special Assistant, Paul C. Nwabuikwu, the minister said that the news was simply the latest in a well financed smear campaign against her “by persons and groups whose interests are profoundly selfish and anti-Nigeria.”

The statement reads thus: “It has been brought to our attention that an online news website, Pointblanknews.com has just published a story alleging that Ngozi, who is also the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, has purchased a property worth N1.2billion in Maitama, Abuja.”

According to the website, the minister paid for the property in November 2011, she said. Iweala said that “the story is totally false and without foundation. The minister has no interest of any sort in the property in question.”