A week after the cabinet of former President Goodluck Jonathan was dissolved, the website of the Ministry of Finance is still referring to Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Finance Minister. At least, that was the situation as of Friday. Okonjo-Iweala ceased to be the Coordinating Minister of the Economy/Minister of Finance on May 28, 2015 when the Jonathan team was dissolved. Finance ministry, just like others, has been handed over to the permanent secretary, pending the appointment of new ministers.
But information on the ministry’s website –www.fmf.gov.ng – on Friday had shown that the domain’s administrator had yet to publish the changes in government, thus giving misleading information to Internet users. Under its “management team” page, the site referred to Okonjo-Iweala as “honourable minister.” Her profile was, as of Thursday, also left on the page. However, on her Facebook page, Okonjo-Iweala has adopted a new status. She had used the medium to make her position on recent disagreements she had with some experts on the true position of Nigerian economy.
Two days after her tenure, she posted on the Facebook wall, “Nigeria, being one of the largest oil producers in the world at 2.5 million barrels a day, has suffered from the 50 per cent decline in oil prices. When 90 per cent of your export revenues and 50 per cent of your fiscal budget are based on oil, a price drop will have dramatic effects.”
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