BREAKING: WTO Announces Okonjo-Iweala DG

BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja WTO members made history today (15 February) when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Nigeria’s former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the organization’s seventh director-general. Dr Okonjo-Iweala will officially take office on 1 March, 2021. She will become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as Director-General. […]