Revelations from Okonjo-Iweala on fuel crisis – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former minister of finance, in an interview with Le Monde, speaks about her childhood, her activities as a minister, the immediate past government of Goodluck Jonathan, the fuel crisis and many others issues.
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The Nigerian economist, who is 61 years old, served two governments as minister of finance from 2003 to 2006, under Olusegun Obasanjo, then, from 2011 to 2015, during the Jonathan presidency.
Between these two positions, Okonjo-Iweala was executive director of the World Bank.
She is now a senior advisor at Lazard and chairs the board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization based in Geneva.
Below is the top 10 revelations from her interview.
1. “I have trouble seeing me as a world leader, while I appreciate that gives me this way! But when I get up in the morning, I do not think about it, I wonder how to solve the next problem. I grew up in a village in southern Nigeria where I grew up to 8 and a half years by my grandmother. My parents were scholarship students in Germany and did not have enough money to take me with them. I learned real life, fetching wood, water. At 5, I could cook.”
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