The federal government on Wednesday said it would do everything possible to ensure former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, emerge director-general of the World Trade Organisation. Ekohotblog had reported how Okonjo-Iweala took an important step towards the actualisation of her goal after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South Korea’s … Read more
The Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has spoken regarding her probable emergence as the director general of world trade organisation (WTO). Ekohotblog had reported how the Former Minister of Finance took an important step towards the actualisation of her goal after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South … Read more
The United States has disclosed why it is blocking the election of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The United States said its opposition to Okonjo-Iweala election is not unconnected to the organisation need to have someone with genuine and hands-on experience at the helms of WTO affairs. In … Read more
Ekohotblog, 28th October, 2020 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed to be the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization. However there has been an unexpected glitch in the process. The United States representative at World Trade Organization took to the floor to insist that South Korea’s candidate remained a contender, and that Washington will not recognise … Read more
Nigeria’s former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged director-general of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala is Nigeria’s nominee for the plum and much-coveted office Ekohotblog can report that Okonjo-Iweala was chosen as the final candidate in the highly competitive and keenly contested race. She polled 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat how … Read more
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s candidate, for the role of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) director-general, is on the brink of landing the plum job as her aspiration receives another boost following European Union expression of support for her candidacy. Reuters quoted an EU official as saying the decision is a strong signal to reinforce the multilateral order … Read more
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is confident on achieving her goal to lead the crisis-affected World Trade Organisation after all the African countries supports her candidacy, promising she would reform the system. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, promised Okonjo-Iweala during her visit to Aso Villa in Abuja that he would do everything possible for her to emerge the … Read more
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is confident on achieving her goal to lead the crisis-affected World Trade Organisation after all the African countries supports her candidacy, promising she would reform the system. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, promised Okonjo-Iweala during her visit to Aso Villa in Abuja that he would do everything possible for her to emerge … Read more
World Trade Organization members removed three candidates from the race to be the next director-general of the body and plan to reduce the contestants to two final candidates in the coming weeks. Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, still remained in the race, according to Bloomberg on Friday. Okonjo-Iweala is a former finance minister in Nigeria and former … Read more
The Nigerian government has fired back at the African Union over its rejection of the nomination of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to contest for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation. Recall AU’s office of legal counsel had rejected the former Minister’s nomination of grounds of coming after the November 30 deadline set by … Read more
The Republic of Benin has revealed why it dropped it’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) candidate for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Ekohotblog understands that the West African country disclosed that it pulled its candidate out of the race to enable Okonjo-Iweala to get stronger backing during the election – this creates a problem for Egypt. It was reported … Read more
World Trade Organisation (WTO) has accepted Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s nomination as one of the candidates for the office of the Director-General. “Nigeria, on 9 June 2020, nominated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the post of WTO Director-General to succeed the current Director-General, Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, who has announced he will step down on 31 August 2020,” the … Read more