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Okonjo-Iweala resumes office as WTO Director-General

Newly elected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday resumes work at the institution.

She was received at WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland by officials of the trade body and a few journalists on her first day as the global organization’s director.

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala who is the first woman, the first African and also the first Nigerian to to emerge as DG of the WTO, was confirmed for the job on February 15, 2021, after the US government gave its nod.

Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is at the presidential villa, Abuja for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

She came into the president’s office accompanied by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubair Dada.

Okonjo-Iweala is running to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has already emerged as one of the final two candidates for the election.

President Buhari has since expressed his support and that of his administration to her effort to clinch the plump post.

Her visit to the presidential villa is apparently connected to the election.