Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala is new WTO DG
By Ismail Abdulaziz
Nigeria’s Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General.
This is contained in the WTO verified Twitter account @wto on Monday.
“Okonjo-Iweala makes history as the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO.”
The term of the new director-general would start March 1.
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