Okonjo Iweala Archives - Security Digest https://securitydigestng.com/tag/okonjo-iweala/ Reporting Nigeria security Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://securitydigestng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Security-Digest-Favicon-32x32.png Okonjo Iweala Archives - Security Digest https://securitydigestng.com/tag/okonjo-iweala/ 32 32 ‘History is made: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General,’ Statement by WTO https://securitydigestng.com/2021/02/15/history-is-made-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-chosen-as-director-general-statement-by-wto/ https://securitydigestng.com/2021/02/15/history-is-made-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-chosen-as-director-general-statement-by-wto/#respond Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:41:43 +0000 https://securitydigestng.com/?p=16647 ‘History is made: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General,’ Statement by WTO WTO members made history today (15 February 2021) when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to […]

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]]> https://securitydigestng.com/2021/02/15/history-is-made-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-chosen-as-director-general-statement-by-wto/feed/ 0 WTO: Africa’s Chance and the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Candidacy https://securitydigestng.com/2020/07/06/wto-africas-chance-and-the-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-candidacy/ https://securitydigestng.com/2020/07/06/wto-africas-chance-and-the-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-candidacy/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:34:57 +0000 https://securitydigestng.com/?p=15153   WTO: Africa’s Chance and the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Candidacy By Yushau A. Shuaib With quite a reputation behind her, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appears to mean different things to different people across the spaces she has straddled. This is why I paused for a moment of contemplation when a professional colleague working in a multilateral institution […]

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]]> https://securitydigestng.com/2020/07/06/wto-africas-chance-and-the-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-candidacy/feed/ 0 ECOWAS Endorses Okonjo-Iweala’s WTO Candidacy https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/23/ecowas-endorses-okonjo-iwealas-wto-candidacy/ https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/23/ecowas-endorses-okonjo-iwealas-wto-candidacy/#respond Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:01:17 +0000 https://securitydigestng.com/?p=14931 ECOWAS Endorses Okonjo-Iweala’s WTO Candidacy The ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government has endorsed the candidacy of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. The apex body noted that since the creation of the WTO on January 1, 1995, as a successor to the General Agreement on […]

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]]> https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/23/ecowas-endorses-okonjo-iwealas-wto-candidacy/feed/ 0 WTO Election: Nigeria replies AU Office, says conclusion unguarded, fails all parameters of objectivity https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/19/wto-election-nigeria-replies-au-office-says-conclusion-unguarded-fails-all-parameters-of-objectivity/ https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/19/wto-election-nigeria-replies-au-office-says-conclusion-unguarded-fails-all-parameters-of-objectivity/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:36:14 +0000 https://securitydigestng.com/?p=14847 WTO Election: Nigeria replies AU Office, says conclusion unguarded, fails all parameters of objectivity Nigeria has replied the AU’s office of legal counsel to the effect that Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s nomination to contest for the WTO DG contravenes laid-down rules, saying that such conclusion is unguarded and failed all parameters of objectivity and unbiased submission. Recall that […]

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