WTO DG backs state's $100 million investment fund and urges focus on industrialisation, special economic zones and the blue economy. Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has declared that Delta State has the potential to emerge as Nigeria's next major industrial and economic hub alongside Lagos, urging the state to …
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged the Nigerian government to deliberately target global investors and supply chain relocations to reduce import dependence, deepen manufacturing, and create jobs. The former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy made the call on Wednesday at Nigeria House on the …
By Esther Ososanya Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed deep condolences to Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama following the deaths of two cabinet ministers in a fatal helicopter crash. Ghana’s Minister of Defence, Dr Edward Kofi Boamah, and Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammad, were among …
