FG Needs to Cut Agencies at Borders to Facilitate trade, Generate Revenue, Says Okonjo-Iweala The World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, asked the federal government to cut down the number of agencies at the borders as part of key reforms needed by the Nigeria...

Second Term: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Reappointed as WTO DG The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has re-appointed Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to serve her second term as the Director-General of the global trade institution. The WTO had earlier confirmed that Okonjo-Iweala was the sole candidate for the position. A statement...

WTO: Okonjo-Iweala on the cusps of history Who becomes the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a matter of weeks? It will surely be either Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee. Members of WTO have since picked the two celebrated women...

The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under-Remittance and Other Fraudulent Activities has said revenue agencies short-changed the Federal Government the sum of N1.7tn as unremitted revenue generated between 2012 and 2016. The panel blamed it on a memo by a former Minister of...