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Okonjo-Iweala was born in Ogwashi-Ukwu, Delta State, Nigeria, where her father, Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, was the Obi (king) of the Obahai royal family of Ogwashi-Ukwu in Nigeria. [ 22 ] Okonjo-Iweala briefly attended Queen's School, Enugu ; she was later relocated to live and to further her education in St. Anne's School, Molete , Ibadan ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization plans a special meeting of its top decision-making body later this month where a call could be made on the reappointment of its director-general ...
Ng met EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic for a lunch on Saturday following a meeting with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director general of the World Trade Organization ... The Today Show. 110 St. Patrick ...
On February 5, 2021, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria secured the support of the United States for Director-General of the WTO. [4] Okonjo-Iweala assumed office on 1 March 2021, and became both the first woman and the first African to hold this position.
Meghan Markle at a Women in Leadership event co-hosted with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on May 11, 2024 in Abuja, Nigeria. ... USA TODAY. Tax refunds are flowing, but IRS is seeing fewer early returns ...
A strong consensus had formed around the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala but on 28 October it emerged that the US representative was opposed to her appointment. [136] WTO members made history on 15 February 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization's seventh Director-General.
The CEO of a major Nigerian bank, along with his wife and son, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border late Friday night ...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: 15 July 2003 – 21 June 2006 Nenadi Usman: July 2006 – May 2007 Umaru Musa Yar'Adua: Shamsuddeen Usman: June 2007 – 17 December 2008 Mansur Mukhtar: 17 December 2008 – 17 March 2010 Goodluck Jonathan: Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga: 6 April 2010 – June 2011 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: 17 August 2011 – 29 May 2015 Muhammadu ...