See How Excited Ngozi is Over Her New Job.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJf9COLU0A9ZrLbE8__6GDfXfZ9hyphenhyphenGUVyW5Mw5oI281hRorlnI4nAMxXB3JpceLTxgW8b01Ey6gINKtLQ_wY_NjAKsTZ0KNdbSINv8hjIqA3GmbDLgap-F_6CRcCm9x0aWIdVpdtE8W6xe/s1600/Ngozi+Okonjo-Iweala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJf9COLU0A9ZrLbE8__6GDfXfZ9hyphenhyphenGUVyW5Mw5oI281hRorlnI4nAMxXB3JpceLTxgW8b01Ey6gINKtLQ_wY_NjAKsTZ0KNdbSINv8hjIqA3GmbDLgap-F_6CRcCm9x0aWIdVpdtE8W6xe/s1600/Ngozi+Okonjo-Iweala.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday, expressed joy over her new job to join the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.<br /> he former finance minister, had also announced that she will also be joining US investment bank, Lazard’s sovereign advice division. <br /> Okonjo-Iweala who tweeted via her Twitter handle, @<span class="u-linkComplex-target">NOIweala</span> said: “I’m excited to join GAVI to immunize 300 million more children in the next five years and save 5 million to 6 million more lives.”<br /> The new portfolios, however, follow her second stint as Nigeria’s finance minister, which ended in May after the Goodluck Jonathan-led government was voted out of office.<br /> Okonjo-Iweala has spent the past three decades working on fiscal management and governance systems in Africa through 25 years at the World Bank, most recently as a managing director, and twice as finance minister in what is now the continent’s biggest economy.<br /> She has although, recently come under sharp criticisms particularly by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, over issues bordering on alleged corruption in the last administration.<br /> Okonjo-Iweala has argued that her work on transparency and anti-corruption as finance minister under both Mr Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo has been unfairly “brushed aside.”<br />

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Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday, exp...

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