The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has bagged an honorary doctorate at Yale University, one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the United States of America.The minister was awarded a Doctor of HumaneLetters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut on Monday.By this honour, she becomes the second Nigerian in the university’s 314-year history to receive its highest honour after Nobel Laureate,Prof. Wole Soyinka, who received an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1980.Conferring the award, the President of the university, Prof. Peter Salovey, described Okonjo-Iweala as “a brilliant reformer and dedicated public servant.”The minister, he added, “has spearheaded efforts to stabilise and grow Nigeria’s economy, battling widespread government corruption and creating greater fiscal transparency and discipline.”Yale’s honorary doctoral 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 recipientsserve as models of excellence and service to our students, to our graduates, to our community and to the world.”Okonjo-Iweala was honoured 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, among others.Yale had in the past honoured a handful of other Africans such as Liberian President, EllenJohnson Sirleaf and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.As Finance Minister in 2004, Okonjo-Iweala and the economic team that she led, helped Nigeria obtain debt relief, wiping out $30 billionof Paris Club debt, leading to a tripling of the growth rates.In her second coming as the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Finance Ministersince August 2011, Okonjo-Iweala has focusedon building strong foundations and institutions critical for the survival and sustenance of the economy. She bravely fought corruption in government with fierce dedication and unflagging energy.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/okonjo-iweala-bags-yale-varsitys-honorary-doctoral-degree/209784/
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Lalasticlala front page please

good, great woman

And the 1st to purchase it!

I wish Saharareporter can go and find out how much this award cost Nigeria or the the reason a woman like this was given an award.

Nigeria really have a future if more women can be given the chance in governance.

MOI build herself a reputation as Economy/Finance minister. She had something that stand her out among her peers. Forget politics and look on her achievements and how she managed two posts together.

SenseiX:
”The minister, he added, “has spearheaded efforts to stabilise and grow Nigeria’s economy, battling widespread government corruption and creating greater fiscal transparency and discipline. 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.

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SenseiX:
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has bagged an honorary doctorate at Yale University, one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the United States of America.The minister was awarded a Doctor of HumaneLetters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut on Monday.By this honour, she becomes the second Nigerian in the university’s 314-year history to receive its highest honour after Nobel Laureate,Prof. Wole Soyinka, who received an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1980.Conferring the award, the President of the university, Prof. Peter Salovey, described Okonjo-Iweala as “a brilliant reformer and dedicated public servant.”The minister, he added, “has spearheaded efforts to stabilise and grow Nigeria’s economy, battling widespread government corruption and creating greater fiscal transparency and discipline.”Yale’s honorary doctoral 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 recipientsserve as models of excellence and service to our students, to our graduates, to our community and to the world.”Okonjo-Iweala was honoured 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, among others.Yale had in the past honoured a handful of other Africans such as Liberian President, EllenJohnson Sirleaf and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.As Finance Minister in 2004, Okonjo-Iweala and the economic team that she led, helped Nigeria obtain debt relief, wiping out $30 billionof Paris Club debt, leading to a tripling of the growth rates.In her second coming as the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Finance Ministersince August 2011, Okonjo-Iweala has focusedon building strong foundations and institutions critical for the survival and sustenance of the economy. She bravely fought corruption in government with fierce dedication and unflagging energy.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/okonjo-iweala-bags-yale-varsitys-honorary-doctoral-degree/209784/
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And still a THIEF!

Even if Yale like
Let them make her their VC
She is still going to be probed and if found guilty, sent to jail !
I'm sure her honorary title will be put to good use in jail

May your enemies continue to rant while your achievement drown them in their folly

MADAM CORRUPTION. PLEASE PACK YOUR THINGS AND GO TO YALE.
THEY NEED YOU THERE.
NIGERIAN'S DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE.
BUHARI'S GOVT DOES NOT NEED SYSTEMATIC FACILITATOR S AND REGULATOR S OF CORRUPTION LIKE YOU NGOZI

hustln to be recognised as d world richest..

if this woman had bn under a better adminstration, I believe her performance will v bn fair...

Heard she should be returning back to MIT as a visiting Professor

Mama Oko-n-jo

royalcatier:
And the 1st to purchase it!

I wish Saharareporter can go and find out how much this award cost Nigeria or the the reason a woman like this was given an award.

with your bigotry and hatred,you can go to any length to pull down somebody,even to ridicule an internationally renowned citadel of excellence.

I can see some haters running their mouth. Aunty Ngozi you are blessed

People keep ranting and condemning while the facts speak for themselves and the awards keep coming.
Transparency international, Yale university doctorate awards...etc

Let's face it, if a 'bad' student keeps coming top of the class, then it's either the student isn't that bad, the examiners are simply terrible or it's just blind hatred.

wonder which of the three this is

Congratulations to her. What a noble achievement. May God bless her and her family.

https://www.nairaland.com/2327502/convert-airtime-mtn-cash-20

E no consine us. Hope she is ready to explain the atrocities she has caused com post May 29?

As expected the children of hate and anger flood the thread

Creeps that haven't gone anywhere in life hating on a God's appointed and expect to progress later in their own life?

Congrats ma you are God's sent. Under your administration, nigeria became africa's largest economy

Fool, go and rest in peace!

You have to be evil to get this award to begin with and the school only takes the highest bid.

Habakus:
with your bigotry and hatred,you can go to any length to pull down somebody,even to ridicule an internationally renowned citadel of excellence.

[size=18pt]If they are not hating on Akwa Ibom threads, celebrating boko haram lunacy you can bet they will be desperately but vainly trying to pull Ngozi down.
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If you doubt me, just read the posts above me.

[size=18pt]Chai,
Some natural bad belle tribe will not sleep well tonight o![/size]

royalcatier:
Fool, go and rest in peace!

You have to be evil to get this award to begin with and the school only takes the highest bid.

^^^^^^^
Shebi University of Ibadan or Ogbomosho is better than Yale.

No wonder you consider tribal marks as beautification of a person.

ZeezaRapture:
E no consine us. Hope she is ready to explain the atrocities she has caused com post May 29?

You can start by simply donating to help victims of Okonja's economic disaster

BackDatAssUp:


[size=18pt]Osun State Civil Servants Relief Fund[/size]
Dear fellow forumites and forum rats,
I come to you on behalf of the good hardworking but not so smart civil servants of the state of osun under aregberascal who for 7 maths and counting have not received their monthly emoluments owing to GEJ and Ngozi carting away Osun people's $20bn from the NNPC account.

Things are very hard in Osun and as I write this urgent appeal most homes go to sleep without their regular amala ati ewedu.

But with a minimum of 200 naira a month you can make a difference.

We are also considering opening a food bank where you can drop off any expired tin foods or food products without nafdac approval.

Also, with just 5000 naira a month you can adopt an Osun state civil servants.

So let's make a difference, we are the world bla bla bla

For further enquiries on how you can make donations pls PM me.

Useless people

Criticism is allowed but you cannot deny the fact that, she's a brilliant, intelligent and a smart woman. I wish to marry a woman as brilliant as her(book smart)

At least those schools have human face to them and won't give criminals awards!

That picture of your sister (Genevieve) without make up is actually not bad, shows she has all her facial features intact.

cjrane:

^^^^^^^
Shebi University of Ibadan or Ogbomosho is better than Yale.

No wonder you consider tribal marks as beautification of a person.

royalcatier:
Fool, go and rest in peace!

You have to be evil to get this award to begin with and the school only takes the highest bid.

You must be a first class idi.ot for taking this long just to respond to a simple comment i made. Just bleep off...

When Obasanjo used her to get debt relief no one accused her of corruption, just because the children of hate dislike GEJ the extended it to NOI she's above all your families combined none in your entire generation or families put together can reach or surpass her achievements you can only hate so haters go and hug transform.

yakubuomowumi:
When Obasanjo used her to get debt relief no one accused her of corruption, just because the children of hate dislike GEJ the extended it to NOI she's above all your families combined none in your entire generation or families put together can reach or surpass her achievements you can only hate so haters go and hug transform.

Don't mind those children of hate who cannot survive without oil revenue... they can no longer fund recurrent and capital expenditures since the fall of oil revenue vis a vis dwindled allocation. Iweala is responsible for the almost $18 billion in foreign debt write off for Nigeria.