Reuters | World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was reappointed for a second term at a special meeting on Friday, the trade watchdog said, meaning her...
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has successfully navigated a significant milestone in her pursuit of a second term. However, she may still encounter a...
Bloomberg | World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is seeking a second term as the rule-setting body for international commerce faces rising protectionism from some...
After 17 years of negotiations, Comoros has officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). While WTO members gave their formal approval for Comoros’s accession last February,...
Reuters | The African Group has asked World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to run for a second term as the head of the global...
African Business | The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have signed a framework agreement with the Democratic Republic...
Nigeria’s former minister of finance and current Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, and Nigerian media mogul Mo...
Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been listed in the US publication, 2022 TIME100, as one of the most influential people in the world. In the...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, has been named the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s...
The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Wednesday said the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and...
Nigeria says it is prepared to host the World Economic Forum on Africa in May, despite growing insecurity, as the threat posed by extreme Islamist group,...
The Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received the prestigious David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award. Okonjo-Iweala, also coordinating minister for the economy, was honored for her...
Nigeria has a strong, buoyant economy receiving billions of dollars of foreign and domestic direct investment in power, petrochemicals, agriculture and consumer goods, but it needs...
Nigeria’s Senate is ordering a forensic audit to track down billions of missing petrodollars. The Central Bank of Nigeria last year reported nearly US$50 billion worth...
(Bloomberg) – Nigeria’s plan to rebase its gross domestic production (GDP) figures next year may boost the assessment of the size of its economy by as...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will not present the 2014 budget to the federal national assembly as planned on Tuesday...
(Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are...
Africa, with its improved economies, can contribute to global growth for the first time in history, African finance ministers said on Saturday in Washington. “Africa is...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Yuri Gripas/Reuters (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not interested in replacing Pascal Lamy as head of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Yuri Gripas/Reuters The Nigerian challenger to head the World Bank congratulated Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim on his appointment to the post on Monday,...
Nigeria Finance Minister., Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/File South Africa’s finance minister, appearing braced for disappointment when the World Bank chooses a new leader later Monday, said he’ll...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed the 2012 budget into law on Friday, keeping all the key figures the same...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala PHOTO/Ramin Talaie/EPA A group of former World Bank officials today endorsed Africa’s candidate to lead the Bank, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In an...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/Getty Images Nigeria’s finance minister Friday joined the race for the top World Bank job, backed by Africa’s leading economies in a push...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/Getty Images Nigeria Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not pursuing the World Bank’s top job, her spokesman said Wednesday, amid reports that her...
