LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners – CONMMEP has expressed shock that despite Nigeria’s amazing natural endowments and potentials, the country is still struggling in every sector of the economy most especially, the maritime. According to the various publications and information that have put the annual worth of trade within…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Few days after Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala assumed office as the first female head and first African to lead the World Trade Organization her sister, Dr. Njideka Udochi, has emerged as the family doctor of the year 2021 in Maryland, USA. Udochi,who is a graduate of medicine from the University of Nigeria, with over…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Trade Organization’s incoming chief on Monday warned against “vaccine nationalism’ that would slow progress in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and could erode economic growth for all countries – rich and poor. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters her top priority was to ensure the WTO does more to address the pandemic, saying…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has eulogised the newly-elected Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, describing her emergence as historic. By her election today, Okonjo-Iweala becomes the First Female and First African WTO Director-General. In a Congratulatory Message…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce welcomed announcement that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will become the seventh Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the first woman in the role since the organization’s creation in 1995. “The U.S. Chamber congratulates Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, whose appointment comes at a critical time for the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Nigerian minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala was confirmed DG of the trade body in a statement by the WTO on Monday. The United States government had last week announced its endorsement of Mrs Okonjo-Iweala for the top…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a step closer to becoming the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization, after a South Korean rival withdrew on Friday following months of uncertainty over the body’s leadership. Okonjo-Iweala faced opposition from the U.S. administration of former President Donald Trump after a WTO…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former minister of finance and the frontrunner in the WTO DG race, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is set to be named the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after South Korea reportedly decided to withdraw its Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee from the race. According to the Washington Trade Daily, Seoul is…