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By Fiona Harvey Removing trade barriers around the world would help to tackle the climate crisis, enable a “just transition” away from fossil fuels and make developing countries more resilient to the impacts of global heating, the head of the World Trade Organization has said.

The kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok seven years ago led to the launching of a multi-million dollar plan, backed by a former UK prime minister, to bolster security at schools – but it failed to stop abductions and protect children. By Nduka Orjinmo The swirl of dust thrown up as a helicopter came down to land heralded …

Supporters of the first woman and first African to become head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are paying tribute to her achievements by… dressing up as her.

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the leading international trade body as it seeks to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs.

Yoo Myung-hee says her decision to pull out was made in ‘close consultation’ with US Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a step closer to becoming director-general of the World Trade Organization after South Korea’s candidate quit the race following months of uncertainty over the body’s leadership.

World Trade Organization members removed three candidates from the race to be the next director-general of the body and plan to reduce the contestants to two final candidates in the coming weeks.

The federal government has reinstated Yushau Shuaib, a civil servant who was forcefully retired in 2013 after he wrote a critical piece on Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, complaining of the lopsided appointments in the finance sector under her rein as Minister.

Former Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has slammed those she termed “mischief-makers” for “putting words” in her mouth, saying she described former governors Rotimi Amaechi and Raji Fashola, now ministers, as scavengers.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, has been named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered PLC.

Former minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was on Thursday, December 1, honoured with the Global Fairness Award in Washington DC, United States.