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...
