W.T.O. LEADERSHIP TUSSLE: COULD NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA BE A VICTIM OF THE U.S-CHINA TRADE WAR?

When the erstwhile Nigerian Finance Minister and World Bank Managing Director, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, was nominated to contest for the position of World Trade Organization’s, W.T.O., Director- General on June 9, 2020, the news of her nomination hit me with a combination of feelings of elation as well as apprehension. I was elated because […]

Nigeria agog as reactions trail emergence of Okonjo-Iweala as WTO DG

Reactions have begun pouring in over the emergence of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as new Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Reacting, former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, congratulated Okonjo-Iweala for emerging as the new Director-General of the WTO. The former Minister of Finance defeated her fellow finalist, Ms Yoo Myung-hee from South Korea by a wide margin for the keenly contested […]

WTO Director-General Race: It’s Now Titanic Battle Of Amazons

The race for the challenging seat of the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has narrowed down to two eminently qualified women with sound global profiles. Reuters, a frontline news agency, says three anonymous sources that briefed it that Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee are through […]