Nigeria's Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

It's always a pleasure to report good news for a change:

Profile: Nigeria's respected finance minister

The BBC's Sola Odunfa in Lagos profiles Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, one of the architects of the country's settling of almost all of its foreign debts.

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Wedded to Work, and in Dire Need of a Wife

By SHIRA BOSS

Published: August 11, 2007

Many working women, seeing their lack of devoted spousal support as an impediment to getting ahead, are wishing they had wives.

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Fortunately, since I live in Brazil, where labour is relatively cheap, I can afford a full-time maid - whom I call my "housewife" - otherwise, as a divorced single mother with two daughters in university, I'd be in the same boat

Bars without women

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