nigeria: Nigeria seeks to reassure wary lenders

Nigeria's new finance minister has pledged to try to rebuild the country's reputation with international lenders and increase transparency in areas such as public procurement. In an interview with the Financial Times, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, recently appointed to the job from her previous post as a vice-president of the World Bank, accepted that Nigeria had to show progress on reform before it could obtain relief on its $31bn (£19bn) foreign debt.