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OKONJO-IWEALA JOINS US INVESTMENT BANK

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 Nigeria’s
former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says she is joining United
States financial advisory and asset management bank, Lazard. Okonjo-Iweala also
said she has been appointed chair-elect of the board of Bill and Melinda Gates’
Gavi the Vaccine.
“The two
appointments I’m going to undertake embody a continuation of what I’ve tried to
do in my career”, she told the Financial Times.

“My work at
Gavi will help me continue my work in strengthening institutions and building
systems” to improve the health of children through immunisation, she said. At
Lazard, she said, she would advise countries on structuring their finances and
dealing with debt issues, the newspaper wrote.
The globally
acclaimed economist, who served twice as Finance Minister, first under
President Olusegun Obasanjo and later under Goodluck Jonathan, has been
criticized by many for looking the other way while billions of dollars earned
from crude were siphoned from the treasury in the Jonathan government.
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