Energy

Okonjo-Iweala Recalls Nasty Experience with Vicious Fuel Subsidy Cabal (Video)

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This isn’t the first time the idea of petrol subsidy removal would be mooted. The Jonathan administration under which the incumbent Director General of the World Trade Organization, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, served as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy also had its Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Okonjo-Iweala Loses Dad

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Professor Chukuka Okonjo, The father of the World Trade Organisation’s Director-General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is dead. The WTO’s Director-General, made the announcement in a statement she issued on behalf of the family on Monday, said the immediate past Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State died at the age of 91. On behalf of my siblings and […]Continue Reading

Politics

President Buhari To Okonjo-Iweala: We’re Happy You MAde It, But You Also Earned It.

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President Muhammadu Buhari Monday hosted in audience Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, newly appointed Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), telling her that despite the robust support Nigeria gave to her candidacy for the position, “You also earned it. We are happy you made it, but you earned it with your record of performance both […]Continue Reading

Economy

BREAKING: Buhari, Okonjo-Iweala Meet In Aso Rock

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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the State House in Abuja. The WTO Chief Executive Officer, who assumed office on March 1, 2021, is visiting Nigeria for the first time since she took office in Geneva, Switzerland. She arrived at the […]Continue Reading

Economy

WTO DG, Okonjo-Iweala Arrives Nigeria

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The Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has arrived Nigeria on a one week visit. She arrived the country at about 12pm via Ethiopian airways. The Director General was received on arrival by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Investment, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo. She is to meet with the […]Continue Reading

News Analysis

Setting Agenda For The World Trade Organisation Director General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

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Last week, , the  66-year-old former Nigerian finance minister and world bank chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, emerged as the seventh  Director-General  of the Global Trade Organisation and  endorsed by United States President, Joe Biden. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala became the first woman and the first African to be chosen as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.  The Continue Reading

Foreign

PMB, Prominent Nigerians Felicitate with Okonjo-Iweala

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President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with former Minister of Finance and Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her election as Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. This was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in Abuja. According to the statement, “As […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Becomes First Woman, African To Lead WTO

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Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the leading international trade body as it seeks to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs. Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization by representatives of the 164 member countries, according to a statement from the Continue Reading