Nice one. A worthy honour from Yale.

Okonjo Iweala is one of the many bright spots of GEJ administrations; a two-time finance minister who know her onion. She will go places!

nice one

Ujulabelle:


This is why she is a corrupt free woman. She is in that position for all Nigerians not to help Ogwashiukwu. Our problem in this country is tribalism, ethnicity and nepotism. Help ur people and forget other Nigerians. Mr Ogwashi, Nigeria is a country not a village.

dude

mr patriotic

there is a saying that says our own is our own,my own is my own

are u trying to tell us now dat when ur in her place you wont do anything for your community??


Mr patriotic i raise cap for u

Congrats to the Amazon!

No matter how hard the APC and their lying mercenaries try to paint GEJ and NOI, they can never deceive those of us who are unbiased and intelligent enough to see the good works of Jonathan's administration.

Congrats once again, ma'am.

d33types:
Jesus Christ..

Ooh, nonsense.. She's not worthy and we know that already.
She's definitely a western mole in our midst

Yale, stay with us to feel her evil effect.

Hatred does one thing and one thing alone, it destroys.
If you don't like the news you can write to Yale university stating why she doesn't deserve it with empirical evidence not hearsay.

SEE WHY IWEALA IS IN GOOD COMPANY WIT HER AWARDERS OF A YALE DOCTORATE DEGREE FOR SUCCESS AT FAILURE.
The huff post had as at 2014 published a Yale Alumnus verdict of the performance of Head of Administration of Yale. An opinion you will find refreshing in helping you understand how she could have got the award. This publication was unearthed from a basic Google search of the web. Enjoy your reading.
@Lalasticala pls find an appropriate page for it. Thanks for ur help.

Yale University Ducks on Fossil Fuel Divest Decision--and Fails Leadership 101Sep 08, 2014|UpdatedNov 08, 2014

Judith SamuelsonExecutive Director, Aspen Institute's Business and Society ProgramAs Yale students returned to classes before Labor Day, they were informed by President Peter Salovey that the University had rejected student demands to divest the endowment of stocks that are among the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.Many of us working behind the scenes had hoped Yale would seize this opportunity to demonstrate real leadership on an issue where leaders are needed. Instead, by ducking the decision to divestfrom Big Coal,theYale Corporationignored the best -- and maybeonly-- real platform that this distinguished University has to move the needle on climate change. And they missed an opportunity to join Stanford as one of the few elite universities to divest from companies whoseprincipal business is mining coal.In his announcement, President Salovey termed climate change"the most important issue that faces the world in our time." Theadministration, however, did notput muscle behind the words, treating the student demands as an issue to be managed away,and instituting instead some lukewarm measures that sound good on paper.What we have here is a failure ofleadership. The Yale Corporationcould have used some of the lessons I was taught up the hill at the Yale School of Management. I hope they come in handy when the Yale Corporation reviews its decision -- a necessary step out of respect for the generation that will inherit the mess we are leaving behind:Leadership Lesson #1: Make Sure You are Asking the Right Question.The decision to divestfrom fossil fuels is apoliticaldecision more than an economicdecision, and not a time for intellectual parsing.The following explanation was given by theYale Daily Newson the work of the Corporation subcommittee: "While members of the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility acknowledged that climate change poses a grave threat to human welfare, they said divestment or shareholder engagement as a precondition to divestment were neither the right way to address this issue nor likely to be effective."No one, least of all campaigners for divestment, thinks dumping some stocks solves the problem. Yale doesn't have the scale, power or influence to move markets. It does, however,have the scale, power and influence to be a catalytic force in the call for action on pricing carbon. Joining the call for divestment of fossil fuels is a small act of solidarity that, because of the Yale brand, would add great vigor to the growing national student movement and hope for a globalsolution.Leadership Lesson #2: Get the Right People at the Table.Real engagement with student leaderswould have helped the committee move past the trap of framing the question too narrowly. Students bring a different lens to the decision--more focused on the broader political landscape than on Yale itself.Students could have helped President Salovey to reframe the issue; to say "Yes/And," rather than "No/But"--as in"YES, we are signing--although we know that divesting from fossil fuels will not directly solvethe problem" and also, "here areall theotherthings that we pledge to do that go beyond thesmall act of solidarity to bring even greater meaning to our pledge." Students and other voices, including members of the Corporation who failed to weigh in, could have also helped Yale think and act like the globalinstitution it aims to be; to alignitself with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the work he is doing to assure a global pricing protocol on carbon.Leadership Lesson #3: The Importance of Doing the Right Thing.The decision to divest is aquestion of morality, not markets. The financial impact--either way--is nil. In the context of a great University that stands for science, taking a boldact now is the right thing to do. A call to divest has much more visibility and impact than the decision topass the buckalong to outside money managers, which the endowment has now been instructed to do.Yale's Administration has failed to see Climate for what it is: a moral issue that will cause irreparable damage to the people least able to tolerate it, and that is already contributing to greater human suffering and real political conflicts that are destabilizing.Rather than stand tall andusethe Yale brand, the Administration chose toprotectthe brand on a divisive issue -- sitting with the rest of the Ivies and rearranging deck chairs (which will no doubt look beautiful as the ship sinks).Yale has no reason to be afraid of using its voice, when an entire parade of voices is needed. It will energize students, alumni AND set the institution apart.Judith Samuelson (Yale School of Management, Class of '82)

Pangea:

Another paid and bought recognition from another cash and carry school.

Please Name your "prestigious" school if you ever attended one.
If you are embittered by this news you can
#goanddie

Yale!...I like that biscuit ...
GEJ is de next Nigerian recipient... Congrats ma.

Whynotthetruth:
As we denigrate our own due to bigotry and hatred; the outside world appreciates them and God elevates them the more...

YIMU!!! They are celebrating her because she carried out their plans-to impoverish the Nigerian economy. May 29, please come thou quickly.

ERCROSS:
Sorriey... Are we suppose to be jubilant over this or what..
Yeye woman and clueless master..
Arrangee award...
Pieces of shyte...

Phahahahahahahahhaha

d33types:
Jesus Christ..
Ooh, nonsense.. She's not worthy and we know that already. She's definitely a western mole in our midst
Yale, stay with us to feel her evil effect.

Abi o

ogaofficer:
congrats to her, but the masses never feel her impact .

Exactly! Her policies were elitist.

uwa1:
Good for her. I am still searching for the so called achievement in fighting corruption.

You go wait tire be that.

luckman20:
Yale is known for producing biscuits, How come?

Phahahahahhahahaha. CLOWN! CLOWN! CLOWN!

danny301:
This is an insult to the good people of Nigeria whose life and economy have been wrecked by Iweala and her co-travellers.

Thank you!

ShymmexOBE:
Lmao...more like recognition for carrying out the Rockefeller foundation agenda from the headquarters of Skull and Bones.

Now it is clearer that she's an economic hit woman. Darn! This woman destroyed Nigeria smh.

If you know, you know, if you don't, keep living.

Please tell them oooooooo

Pangea:

Another paid and bought recognition from another cash and carry school.

CLOWN! CLOWN! CLOWN!

levelszik:
mechieonu, nkakwu ocha

Nna, bet why?

gbengus17:
EFCC WILL VERY SOON COLLECT THE AWARD FROM HER, IN SOME FEW MONTHES TO COME, YALE UNIVERSITY WILL BE BLACKLISTED

Phahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

PDPwayoo:


SHE DESERVE IT HEHEHEHE
Nigeria has very good economy on paper or theory but on reality or practical, nothing to show for it...... Now i know why Nigerians accuse CNN for fake news cos they report without knowing what is on the ground.

Now you know.

gbengus17:
EFCC WILL SOON RUBBISH THE AWARD AND COLLECT IT FROM HER IN JESUS NAME

You just had to bring the LORD's name into this. Mehn, Nigerians are pained!

shugacaneman:
thunder go fire that Yale.

It is so easy to identify school dropouts with no life purpose SMH

PLS WHICH OF THE IWEALA.. D NIGERIA OWN OR TOGO IWEALA...? I smh in swahili

mrdrizzy:
Naso so awards e dey get

Na award we go chop??

Dat lady has done nothing of her community

Absolutely nothing,even her dad is obi

Bt nothing is done in ogwash ukwu delta state

No light for up to a year
Wire don become cloth hanging space

Road no dey
Nothing nothing!


She has got to be d most useless person to come out of delta

When people talk, it shows if they see things upside down which means living upside down.
Just tell me you hate her cos of the tribal rubbish you have been fed with from childhood and I will be ok.
Not vomiting rubbish.

Better appreciate good things so that it will reach you one day.

ShymmexOBE:
Lmao...more like recognition for carrying out the Rockefeller foundation agenda from the headquarters of Skull and Bones.

Now it is clearer that she's an economic hit woman. Darn! This woman destroyed Nigeria smh.

If you know, you know, if you don't, keep living.

That was what I wrote a while ago.
The same cabal at the world bank and the IMF who recruited her are the same cabal who honoured her.
At whose expense?
NIGERIA!
NOI job well done

Congrats to Mummy Ngo. I believe by the time this administration winds up, many hidden secrets about how Nigeria was being run for the past 40years will be unraveled. GEJ, Aunty Ngo and many others with deep and first hand inside knowledge of things may expose a lot of things.

The most shocking will be how the oil industry was run for the past 4 decades, the beneficiaries, then Nigeria and entire world will know. Like I said they have been in the system and they know lots of secrets hidden from the common man, even some Niger Delta already have access to these secrets. A lot of can of worms is about to be opened.

Whynotthetruth:
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University one of the United State of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.

The Minister was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut Monday. She is the second Nigerian in the university’s 314-year history to receive its highest honour after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who received an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1980.

Giving out the award, the President of the University Professor Peter Salovey described Okonjo-Iweala as “a brilliant reformer and dedicated public servant.” He said that Minister “has spearheaded efforts to stabilize and grow Nigeria’s economy, battling widespread government corruption and creating greater fiscal transparency and discipline.”

Yale’s honorary doctorate degree is seen globally as a very important honour. According to the institution “those who have received honorary degree are scholars, public servants, Nobel Prize winners and heads of states.

“Collectively, they represent the aspirations of this institution. Yale honorary degree recipients serve as models of excellence and service to our students, to our graduates, to our community and to the world,” the institution says.

As Finance Minister in 2004, Okonjo-Iweala and the economic team that she led helped Nigeria obtain debt relief, wiping out $30 billion of Paris club debt, leading to a tripling of the growth rates.

The second time around as Finance Minister in 2011, Okonjo-Iweala has focused on building solid foundations and institutions critical for the survival and sustenance of the economy. She bravely fought corruption in governance with fierce dedication and unflagging energy.

Okonjo-Iweala was honored alongside the Chair of the Board of Governors of US Federal Reserve System Janet Yellen, world renowned Beninoise Singer and songwriter Angelique Kidjo, University Professor and founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University Gayatari Chakravorty Spivak, Professor and Director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics at Rockefeller University Jeffrey Michael
Friedman, Inventors and Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Dean Kamen, etc.

Yale had in the past honored a handful of other Africans such as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/yale-honours-okonjo-iweala-for-fighting-corruption-fiscal-transparency/

Cc. Lalasticlala, ishilove, and other mods

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JOKE OF THE CENTURY!!!

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ShymmexOBE:
Lmao...more like recognition for carrying out the Rockefeller foundation agenda from the headquarters of Skull and Bones.

Now it is clearer that she's an economic hit woman. Darn! This woman destroyed Nigeria smh.

If you know, you know, if you don't, keep living.

That's true. Do you belong to Skulls and Bones?

porka:


[size=16pt]Direct your grievance at Yale University management.

Tell them they are either fools or they made a mistake.

They will give you an audience; they might withdraw the award or confirm it and educate you on their reasons.

Best of luck.[/size]

Sir/ma, do you think if she were an American with unanswered cases of graft hanging around her(or may be her office) she would be considered for an award at this time? Although I do not understand how your mind work but I know that America is a sane society that do not celebrate questionable(or seemingly) characters. Remember how she has been patching the economy telling us how healthy it was and see what is going on today; more debts and job losses out there. Please go and learn the fundamentals of economics and stop acting ignorant here. How can you build institutions to free some funds from some corrupts civil servants while you also permit the door of stealing in another direction? Tell me in your own calculation how you think billions of oil incomes over the last 5 years has been spent and how the Federal Budget has improved looking at its recurrent expenditure. I believe Soludo's lines that reckoned NOI as an administrator and less economist.
Yale is prestigious but this blunder will still hunt its image just watch out when critics begin to question the rationale behind its decision.

PDPwayoo:


SHE DESERVE IT HEHEHEHE
Nigeria has very good economy on paper or theory but on reality or practical, nothing to show for it...... Now i know why Nigerians accuse CNN for fake news cos they report without knowing what is on the ground.

Looking at your moniker alone defines you and your mental capability... unfortunately I don't engage people with such IQ capacity as yours...thanks

saintopus:

Google will be your best friend to find Yale University. At the bottom of the site you will see contact us, then start your writing to the management.

Please do not forget to use Lai Mohmed and popular phrase
1. Monumental cluelessness
2. Epic corruption
3.Colossal daftness
4. Colossal corruption.
5. "I don forget the other grammer them abeg make I consult Prof. Soyinka "

Read this to cure your ignorance. I want you to hold an objective view of your country.its the view of Boyo, try and read.

In terms of performance, can the Finance Minister, Okonjo Iweala justify her statement that the outgoing administration is leaving behind a solid economic legacy?

The truth of the matter is that Nigerians are gullible and to a very large extent unfortunately ignorant about the operations of an economy. Because even the expectation of extraordinary or excellent performance from Okonjo Iweala ab initio was totally misplaced. Misplaced in the sense that the failure of her first term in office was promoted as success. Consequently, you find that because that failure of her first term in office was not recognised, expectations became so high. Unfortunately, you cannot build on falsehood. You cannot give what you don’t have.

I recall two articles which I wrote at the end of Iweala’s first tenure in office, when I said that it is impossible to judge her performance based on debt forgiveness. In the first place, no country pays every debt it owes when its people are suffering. In addition, there was evidence that we had paid the initial debt owed several times over and yet we were told to pay 12 billion dollars to be able to get a reprieve of God knows what, at a time when poverty in the country was deepening. A Finance Minister in any country is generally judged on the basis of certain indices. For example, what was the level of inflation when the Finance Minister came in, and what is the level of inflation when she is leaving? What was the level of consumption spending when the Finance Minister came in, and what is the level of consumption spending when she left? What is the level of capital accumulation in terms of fiscal discipline, directing more resources towards capital formation and infrastructure?

Did consumption expenditure (recurrent expenditure) continue to exceed capital expenditure such that recurrent expenditure constantly edged around 70 percent while capital expenditure was 30 percent? You cannot cover failure forever. Those were indices of failure. What about the exchange rate at the time the Minister came and the exchange rate when she left and what level of employment did the Minister meet? We should also consider her policies about generating more employment. In all these critical indices, Okonjo Iweala failed. So, with such failure, it was totally baffling for anyone to consider her return based on good performance in the first instance.

Henry Boyo
Henry Boyo
Because Nigerians were gullible and did not really understand what was happening, they were bamboozled by the razzmatazz of this lady president from the world Bank. We were totally fooled. It is totally inapplicable to expect the same person to come back and suddenly change over a new leaf.

There is the issue about those indices I mentioned initially with inflation at eight percent running to 10 per cent and cost of funds to the real sector at over 20 per cent. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy was asked a question by a ThisDay Newspaper reporter at an interview less than two years ago that “madam, why is it that the cost of funds is well over 20 per cent? And the Minister of Finance, this so-called exalted personality in the area of economics management said, “ In fact that has been bothering me, I don’t really know, it is something that I must discuss with the banks.” If she did not know after she had been there for a long time, is it the question by the reporter that has now prompted her interest, When she knows that no economy can thrive or succeed when cost of funds to the real sector is over 20 per cent?

No economy can also succeed, especially with a population like ours, when the ratio between recurrent and capital expenditure has even risen from 70:30 the last time she was there to a recurrent of over 90 percent now. Is that not alarming? After she dashed out our money for debt relief, she came back and reaccumulated the debts under the guise of good economic management. In what way can you congratulate her for the four or five years she has now spent in office? If anything, she has damaged the economy. She came up with all kinds of things. There’s YouWin for instance. Have you ever seen anybody’s character being built on just being given money without discipline or any sustainable control attached to it?

Yes, young people are doing business. But why should you throw as much as N8million or even N10million to them and you say “go and continue doing the business and employ people,” without the proviso that this money being given belongs to the people and that they have a responsibility to repay it. Any business done using people’s money, and the persons doing the business are not made to know that there is a schedule for repayment is money thrown down the drain. How she can exalt herself and her performance by referring to that as an index of superior economic management is baffling.

You find also that the same debt that she said she cleared, is what we are again almost back into. In addition to that, debt is being aquired at rates which even a standard six person as Minister of Finance should not accept. Why would you borrow to fund government activities at 12 to 15 per cent? How could you be Minister of Finance at a time that your President is going to China as President Jonathan did about 18 months ago or so to borrow $1.5billion from the Chinese for transport and other infrastructural development, and simultaneously on the same trip to China, your Central Bank Governor on the trip was asked, “what are you doing in China,” and he said he was looking for ways to invest the CBN’s foreign reserves. How could you have a Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy who cannot put the two together? How could you have a Finance Minister who, during the fuel subsidy upheaval of early 2012, did not know the level of rot in the subsidy business? She is not just the Finance Minister, but also the coordinating Minister of the Economy!

When Sanusi Lamido Sanusi came up and said people were submitting papers which were being stamped, approved and money paid, who paid it? Why didn’t the Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister show any interest in that. Why must it deserve attention only when it became a crisis issue. Would you be satisfied and congratulate a Finance Minister when you suddenly find that apart from the huge disparity between capital expenditure and recurrent expenditure, the Minister has been sitting on a process that allows the payment of well over a trillion Naira on fuel subsidy, using over 20-25 per cent of our annual budget on fuel subsidy. And you call that a superior Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy?

These are realities. These things are not made up. How did we get to that point. How did we get from paying N200billion for subsidy to over N1 trillion in her own tenure? This information is in the public domain. And why should we be discussing Okonjo Iweala in terms of performance if not because people believe the lies of the first term. These are the realities.