The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University one of the United State of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.

The Minister was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut Monday. She is the second Nigerian in the university’s 314-year history to receive its highest honour after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who received an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1980.

Giving out the award, the President of the University Professor Peter Salovey described Okonjo-Iweala as “a brilliant reformer and dedicated public servant.” He said that Minister “has spearheaded efforts to stabilize and grow Nigeria’s economy, battling widespread government corruption and creating greater fiscal transparency and discipline.”

Yale’s honorary doctorate degree is seen globally as a very important honour. According to the institution “those who have received honorary degree are scholars, public servants, Nobel Prize winners and heads of states.

“Collectively, they represent the aspirations of this institution. Yale honorary degree recipients serve as models of excellence and service to our students, to our graduates, to our community and to the world,” the institution says.

As Finance Minister in 2004, Okonjo-Iweala and the economic team that she led helped Nigeria obtain debt relief, wiping out $30 billion of Paris club debt, leading to a tripling of the growth rates.

The second time around as Finance Minister in 2011, Okonjo-Iweala has focused on building solid foundations and institutions critical for the survival and sustenance of the economy. She bravely fought corruption in governance with fierce dedication and unflagging energy.

Okonjo-Iweala was honored alongside the Chair of the Board of Governors of US Federal Reserve System Janet Yellen, world renowned Beninoise Singer and songwriter Angelique Kidjo, University Professor and founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University Gayatari Chakravorty Spivak, Professor and Director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics at Rockefeller University Jeffrey Michael
Friedman, Inventors and Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Dean Kamen, etc.

Yale had in the past honored a handful of other Africans such as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/yale-honours-okonjo-iweala-for-fighting-corruption-fiscal-transparency/

Cc. Lalasticlala, ishilove, and other mods

As we denigrate our own due to bigotry and hatred; the outside world appreciates them and God elevates them the more...

thunder go fire that Yale.

shugacaneman:
thunder go fire that Yale.

Hatred or partisanship...which of them is your problem?

Fighting Corruption through reforms and building credible institutions - Okonjo Iweala






Deploying Technology to close and monitor every system prone to corrupt practices - President Jonathan

Congrats to her

Ok...no thesis just pay money and collect.

Nonsense

Hmm

Greet job

Some people will be against this.









ThefakeStan

Nnna see internal corruption

Congratulations sha!

No matter how you are hated and how misinformed people choose to be due to hatred.

People that understand where you are coming from and what you have done to make the world and your country a better place will always honour you.

As if I care

Congrats to her.

She still has to help Nigeria recover the loot of the recent past, by helping to uncover it. Otherwise, how would she be happy with this kind of honour (for fighting corruption) after being the coordinating minister in a regime alleged to be the most corrupt in Nigeria's history?

Sabi woman

Haba

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Congrats to her all the same

Jesus Christ..

Ooh, nonsense.. She's not worthy and we know that already.
She's definitely a western mole in our midst

Yale, stay with us to feel her evil effect.

congrats to her, but the masses never feel her impact .

Good for her. I am still searching for the so called achievement in fighing corruption.

Yale is known for producing biscuits,
How come?

This is an insult to the good people of Nigeria whose life and economy have been wrecked by Iweala and her co-travellers.

She sure deserves it

Lmao...more like recognition for carrying out the Rockefeller foundation agenda from the headquarters of Skull and Bones.

Now it is clearer that she's an economic hit woman. Darn! This woman destroyed Nigeria smh.

If you know, you know, if you don't, keep living.

Another paid and bought recognition from another cash and carry school.