Yemi Kale, a former Statistician-General of the Federation and ex-CEO of the National Bureau of Statistics, has explained what economists mean when they describe Nigeria’s economy as “stable.” He said the term does not necessarily mean citizens are free from hardship. Kale’s comments came in response to public debate after World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi […]
.58 countries endorse her for second term Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organisation, will seek a second four-year term when her mandate expires next August, her spokesman said Monday. “We can confirm that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has officially announced her intention to seek a second term as […]
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named the most powerful woman in Africa on Forbes. According to Forbes’ 20th annual ranking released on Tuesday, Okonjo-Iweala, a prominent Nigerian, is positioned at 87th place in the Most Powerful Women in the World list, surpassing Mpumi Madisa, a South African businesswoman at […]
Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that Africa needed more fiscal stimulus to engender economic growth and recovery. Okonjo-Iweala spoke at the UBA Africa Conversations 2021 with the theme: “Africa to the World,” held virtually to commemorate Africa Day on Tuesday in Lagos. She noted that other developed countries […]
By Benjamin Omoike President Muhammadu Buhari, newly-elected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the President, African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, have called for infrastructural development, investment in youths and enhanced private sector contribution, for Lagos to achieve its vision of becoming a Smart City. The trio spoke on […]
Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, welcomed the historic emergence of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former finance minister of Nigeria, as the first female and African Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO. Saying this is the most fitting news for a struggling nation because of weak leadership […]
Following the decisions of the General Council of World Trade Organization (WTO) in a meeting on Monday, Nigeria former minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as the new Director General of WTO. This is a great achievement for her and the black race at large because she is the first woman and first African […]
…Ex-minister emerges first female and African DG of organization World Trade Organisation (WTO) members on Monday elected Nigerian economist, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to be its next director-general. She will be the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO. “WTO members have just agreed to appoint Dr Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director-General of […]
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian-born economist and international development expert, was born 13 June 1954. She currently sits on the boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and the African Risk Capacity (ARC). Previously, Okonjo-Iweala spent a 25-year career at the World Bank as a development economist, scaling the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are currently meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Okonjo-Iweala was led to the meeting with the President by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubair Dada; and the Minister of State, Industry Trade and Investment, […]
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and four others candidates will know fate for the job of director-general of the World Trade Organisation next week. Daily Times gathered that the other candidates are Kenya’s Amina Mohamed, Britain’s Liam Fox, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Al-Tuwaijri, and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee. But next week, the initial pool of eight candidates to […]
The ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government has endorsed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from 2021 to 2025. This was made known in a statement signed by President Mahamodu Issoufou, Chairman of the Authority and made available by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on […]
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) has acknowledged and accepted the nomination of Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the nation’s candidate for the bloc’s Director- General position. President Muhammadu Buhari on June 5, endorsed Okonjo-Iweala for the WTO top job, making her the second African vying for the position so far. A statement on the organisation’s website […]
Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, has said that the then Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Mohammed Bello Adoke, and Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, did not at anytime advised him to reject 2015 election result. The ex-President maintained that he never […]
Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Sunday, distanced herself from a statement credited to her, saying that she never said ‘yesterday’s scavengers are today’s saints’. The social media reported that Okonjo-Iweala had referred to some members of the current administration as ‘scavengers of yesterday and today’s saints’ in her book titled, ‘Fighting Corruption […]
Two-time minister of finance and Word Bank financial consultant, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed that there was plot by oil mafias in Nigeria to kill her while serving as minister under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. TheCable online medium also quoted Okonjo -Iweala as saying that the mafias orchestrated the kidnapping of her mother as part […]
Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed June 3 to deliver ruling on contempt charge against the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The Minister was accused of disobeying a court order that had on February 25, 2014, directed her to release to a civil society group, Centre […]