Buhari To Okonjo-Iweala: We’ll Work More To Ensure You Emerge WTO DG       President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, assured former Minister of Finance and Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that he will do all within his power to ensure that she becomes the Director-General of World Trade Organisation. According...

Race to WTO Leadership Is Down To The Final Two Candidates     World Trade Organization members selected two final candidates -- Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee -- to advance to the final round in the race to lead the Geneva-based trade body, according...

Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala, Seven From Other Countries Join The Race For Top WTO Job     With a former Nigerian foreign and finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala leading in the race for the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, more strong candidates have emerged. The Economic Confidential gathered that...

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...

Trump’s America will lose out in global trade war Economic activity in Donald Trump's America could fall more than two percent within a year if Washington launched a trade war on a wide front, European Central Bank researchers suggested Wednesday. The forecast comes as officials like...

Chinese Firms Relocate to Escape Trump’s tariffs A growing number of Chinese companies are adopting a crafty way to evade US President Donald Trump’s tariffs: remove the “Made in China” label by shifting production to countries such as Vietnam, Serbia and Mexico. The world’s two largest...