LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has declared her intentions to gun for the presidency of the World Bank. Okonjo-Iweala disclosed this in a media interview yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. She said: “I know that, because I contested the last time in 2012, and many people were asking that question. “It…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twitter has appointed former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former World Bank chief Robert Zoellick as directors as it reshuffled its board. Marjorie Scardino will be stepping down from the Board for personal reasons at the end of the year. Scardino joined Twitter in 2013 and became the first female board…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar may be set to pick ex-Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi as his running mate ahead of the 2019 presidential election, sources close to the Turaki of Adamawa revealed to BusinessDay. Atiku recently announced his intention to contest the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $250 million of the $500 million recovered from the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was withdrawn. The Nation reports that the letter summoning Okonjo-Iweala…