Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

June 20, (THEWILL) - The University of Oxford, England, has conferred an honorary doctorate on Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The former Nigerian Minister of Finance disclosed this in a post on her...

November 6, (THEWILL) – Okonjo-Iweala was upbeat over the weekend when her first son, Dr Uzodinma Iweala, tied the knot with his German lover, Lotte Elsa. The very simple ceremony was held in Heidelberg, Germany. Okonjo-Iweala, the director general of the...

The trio of Dr Akinwumi Adesina, president, African Development Bank, AfDB; Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, have been honoured with the National Diaspora Merit Award by the Nigerians...

August 09, (THEWILL) - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has debunked a statement currently circulating on social media, claiming that she has been receiving “toxic calls and messages” in the aftermath of...

August 08, (THEWILL) - President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, met with the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. She was accompanied to the villa by Dr Ali Pate, a ministerial nominee...

The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has lamented the level of disunity in Nigeria, describing the situation as sad. Dr Okonjo-Iweala spoke on Saturday, via her verified Twitter handle, in response to the...

May 15, (THEWILL) - The Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has advised State Governors to adopt new technology that will boost their internally Generated Revenues (IGR) and avoid over reliance on external borrowing. Dr Okonjo-Iweala spoke on...

December 08, (THEWILL) – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of World Trade Organisation, WTO, has been named one of Forbes’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the world for the year 2022. Forbes is an American business magazine, owned by Integrated Whale...

October 17, (THEWILL) - The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Economist and Founder, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Atedo Peterside, CON; former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria, Ibukun Awosika, as well as the founder, Guaranty Trust...

October 01, (THEWILL) - The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, may consider quitting her job at the organisation if no headway can be found on critical issues, trade officials at the organisation have suggested. According to a...