Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is among the candidates being proposed to take over the presidency of the World Bank, with the incumbent Robert Zoellick, having served notice that he would step down in June.

Ngozi was a former managing director of the bank until late last year when he resigned to become Nigeria’s finance minister, for the second time in less than a decade. She is the favorite of Nancy Birdsall, head of the Center for Global Development, who stressed that the selection process “needs to be competitive” and truly open to any candidate.

Birdsall has also proposed Nandan Nilekania, the Indian co-founder of INFOSYS.

It is crucial that “whoever ends up in the job has the legitimacy that a person that is truly competent would ensure,” she said in a phone interview with the AFP.

It is not clear yet whether Ngozi would dump Nigeria for the World bank job.

But the race is much hotter with Americans with renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, who led the UN committee on the Millennium development goals, throwing his hat in the ring Friday in a Washington Post op-ed piece, saying the World Bank needs an expert like himself rather than another politician or Wall Street banker.

Sachs’s declaration came amid signs the United States is eyeing others for the high-profile job.

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Aunty Ngo I wish u gudluk

Am sure her boss Goodluck would wish her Goodluck,

She should go back to world bank,she failed here.

Funny

Fantastic for Nigeria. I pray it comes tru.

Show me any world bank president that was not AMERICAN! Also show me an IMF president that was not European?

THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT?

Even countries with better economic clout hardly get the post (speaking of china India brazil south Africa) talk less of Nigeria.

Only PM news.

She should take voodoo economics back to World Bank.

Propaganda machine @work,so dat we may re rate highly for being a candidate.History is just by d corner to rate her failure

lets see

Just lyk saying Cardinal Okogie would be the next Pope!

God I beg answer our prayers on time, Let her get the job and leave Nigerians alone

Token Black Candidate - "Lets throw a 'Negro' into the mix"

Whether she remains in office in Nigeria or for the world bank she nothing but a menace to societies.

'what people dont understand they criticise,
what they understand
they destroy' - TB Joshua

@topic, That position is reserved for Hillary Clinton.

An impossibility

She wil definitely run down world financial system, a person dt cannot explain what has happened in her place of work for past 6 years(a presenter on AIT asked Iweala during subsidy removal?s saga dt what has d fed govt done with money saved 4rm diesel's subsidy removal, Okonjo replied dt she knew nothing about dt) & besides she is a silent politician & Jeffry Sach has finished d talk dt World Bank needs neither politician nor Wall Street Banker. 4 dis reasons she is not fit 4 dt post, i reserve my comments!

Is Iweala a US citizen? That position is reserved for Americans just as IMF headship is for Europeans

moderattor:

'what people dont understand they criticise,
what they understand
they destroy' - TB Joshua

Thank u, am feed up as if nairaland has majority of fools,
God is blessing her and all u can do is abuse, criticize, back bite, she is never a failure,


Note; support a winner, for u 2 win,
don't b enemy of progress,
, Tonardo of Naija.

Like biger boy n klas hav said iweala is not an american citizen so she can never b world bank prez

until someone tell me who she is, weather she"s nigerian or biafran, i reserve my comments;whic are huge by the way!

We are yet to know the actual role of okonjo iweala at world bank because of easily carried away with confused state of minds of some Nigerians  that are unnecessarily embellishing iweala's profile .
The real World bank  MD  is an American that will be leaving in June , how come Nigerians keep reffering to iweala as the world bank MD.
No stark third world country can present candidate  for world bank MD position . World bank can employ  third world as staff and  train them like they did for iweala /other Nigerians

This woman make us deltans proud!!, kudos mama!

Nigerians don't know your value, you can go to where hard work is appreciated

Good, dats to show dat some nigerians are just critics, she has done well so far. With her recent 25% salary cut as tax for pple earning above 144k so as to bridge d gap btwn d poor and d rich, she's good

@ klas

klas:

Is Iweala a US citizen? That position is reserved for Americans just as IMF headship is for Europeans

Just what I was about to say. Its the rule. Don't recollect any non us person taking up the post nor a non european heading IMF.

I think NOI holds dual citizenship (Nigeria and US), but it is highly improbable that America will cede control of the World Bank head role to someone who is not substantively American (ie US citizen by birth, breeding and heritage).

As to whether she is qualified I shall reserve my comment but I do not believe Nigeria's Budget 2012 as drafted shows her in a good light.

Back to sender,

@Bigger boy and co, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christine Largade don't are both french. Don't rush up to threads with ur baseless misinformation.

Let her go, at least nigeria will rest from the western theories she has been imposing on hapless nigerians.