Tag: Okonjo Iweala
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Sanwo-Olu stops over at WTO headquarters to hail Okonjo-Iweala
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has made a stopover at the WTO headquarters, Geneva area of Switzerland, to greet the Director-General of World Trade Organisation, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, a former minister of finance in Nigeria, took office as WTO director-general on March 1, 2021. Sanwo-Olu paid the visit, Tuesday, while in Geneva…
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2023: Peter Obi meets Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerians in diaspora
Former Anambra state governor and the Labour Party ( LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has met with the Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Trade Organization. Okonjo-Iweala made this announcement via her verified Twitter handle on Wednesday.
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Okonjo-Iweala, Joe Biden, others make Time 100 Most Influential People list
Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the only Nigerian on 2021 The Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the world. Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is on The Time’s 100 Most Influential People list alongside Duke and Duchess of Sussex Prince Harry and Meghan. Other notable honourees of the 2021 Time 100…
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How I helped Nigeria save $3.5bn from pensions, subsidy fraud under two presidents – Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday reminisced on her tenure as Nigeria’s Finance minister under Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. She also revealed how she superintended over saving Nigeria a cumulative $3.5 billion by cleaning up the country’s pension and subsidy systems. Okonjo-Iweala spoke during a monitored online interview…
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Okonjo-Iweala says AFCFTA’s success key to Africa’s growth, calls for self-reliance in continent
Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday said African countries must do everything to let the continental free trade area (AfCFTA) agreement work. Okonjo-Iweala, said this on Tuesday at the UBA Africa Day Conversations 2021. The AfCFTA, launched in March 2018, is a trade agreement between 54 AU member states, with…
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Kagame, Okonjo-Iweala, Ghebreyesus, Elumelu, others for UBA Africa Conversations 2021
The UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa’s Global Leaders – President Kagame of Rwanda, WTO’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, UBA’s Tony O. Elumelu, WHO’s Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, IFC’s Makhtar Sop Diop, to Celebrate Africa Day at the UBA Africa Conversations 2021 The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, is set to celebrate this year’s Africa Day…
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Dr Okonjo Iweala: Trade and Development In Discourse, By Issa Aremu
“Nigeria’s share in world trade is 0.33 per cent”. “Nigeria’s share in Africa’s trade is 19 per cent, below its share of Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)”. And that is official! At every engagement in Abuja during the week, (the Ministry of Trade and Investment, Presidency and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,…
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WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala urges Nigeria to plan for non-oil future
The Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has advised Nigeria to plan for a future without revenues from fossil fuels as the world transits to renewable energy. Speaking during a press conference in Abuja, Dr Okonjo-Iweala said as other countries ban the use of fossil fuels and move to the use…
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Burna Boy, Wizkid grammy awards, example of services to export – Okonjo-Iweala
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), has applauded Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars, Burna Boy and Wizkid, for wining awards at the 2021 Grammy, saying such services should be encouraged for export in Nigeria. OKonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday in Abuja, while meeting with captains of industry sector, said with Nigeria’s large number of educated people,…
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Nigerian economy on the verge of collapse, needs urgent reform – WTO DG Okonjo-Iweala
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday said Nigeria maybe heading towards economic collapse if it failed to immediately embark on diversification from oil to other sources for survival. The two term former finance minister highlighted some steps the nation can take to avert imminent economic collapse in no…