{"id":450547,"date":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/okonjo-iweala-is-second-highest-paid-official%e2%80%93-world-bank\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","slug":"okonjo-iweala-is-second-highest-paid-official-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/okonjo-iweala-is-second-highest-paid-official-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala is second highest paid official\u2013 World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n<span id=\"fullgist\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>The Managing Director, World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will be forgoing the second highest salary package in the Bretton Woods, institution if she finally serves in President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former Nigerian finance minister currently earns more than $351, 740 yearly, \u201cnet of taxes\u201d, Empowered Newswire reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking on Tuesday in Washington DC, United States, a Media Relations Officer of the World Bank, Mr. Alexis Obrien, however, said that the Bank might not make any public comment yet on the nomination \u201cof one of its managing directors for a job as a federal minister in Nigeria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Obrien confirmed that the salaries of the top management executives of the bank were contained in one of its annual reports, which was obtained by Empowered Newswire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Okonjo-Iweala, who was finance minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s administration, and later foreign affairs minister, received a dollar-denominated salary in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The World Bank chief reportedly made the same request when she was first asked to serve in Jonathan\u2019s cabinet before she was urged to jettison the request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The World Bank\u2019s reports on its top executives\u2019 pay indicated that, apart from the huge salary Okonjo-Iweala was being paid, she was also entitled to $76,996 as the Bank\u2019s contribution to her pension.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201106290113989\" title=\"Okonjo-Iweala is second highest paid official\u2013 World Bank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Okonjo-Iweala is second highest paid official\u2013 World Bank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Managing Director, World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will be forgoing the second highest salary package in the Bretton Woods, institution if she finally serves in President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s cabinet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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