The confirmations, a third in a series that started last week Wednesday, saw the Senate sit out a prolonged plenary.
Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, who is returning to the country's administrative team after she resigned from the cabinet in 2006, said she accepted Mr Jonathan's invitation to participate in his administration out of the passion to bridge the gap between the rich and poor in Nigeria.
She said her policy direction in the government would place emphasis on job creation, infrastructural development, and budgeting trend reversal. She added that she would smoothen project financing, ensure budget discipline, and increase the ease of doing business in Nigeria.
She, however, criticized the current budget trend where the recurrent expenditure triples the expenditure on capital projects.
"I am worried that recurrent expenditure is eating up the budget," she said.
She argued that the new minimum wage was not the problem, but the nation's overhead expenditure.
The overhead expenditure was a subject of great controversy last year after the Central Bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, stated that the National Assembly was responsible for one-quarter of the nation's overhead expenditure.
She also said the N18, 000 minimum wage would not over burden the budget.
"We have other types of overhead expenditure which are also contributing to eating up the budget ...we need all your help, distinguished senators, to make this happen. It is not a job for Mr President alone," she appealed to the lawmakers.
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