The long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is not expected to be voted on by parliament before a planned general election in February 2015, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a conference call on Tuesday.
Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, by now would have been recorded as the first African woman to occupy the seat of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but for a veto by the United States, which halted her announcement, perhaps temporarily.
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