{"id":31705,"date":"2020-10-28T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31705"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:18:19","slug":"okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala emerges WTO DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>vFormer Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO.<\/p>\n<p>Iweala emerged winner of the highly competitive race after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South Korea\u2019s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee.<\/p>\n<p>With the development, Iweala has become the first female and first African to occupy the office.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that she had received support from 79 countries,<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a virtual press conference last Friday, she said the 55-man African Union (AU) officially endorsed her over her only opponent, Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: vFormer Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO. Iweala emerged winner of the highly competitive race after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South Korea\u2019s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee. With the development, Iweala has become the first female and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":31707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1517],"class_list":["post-31705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-world-trade-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Okonjo-Iweala emerges WTO DG - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:vFormer Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged as the Director-General of the World Trade\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Okonjo-Iweala emerges WTO DG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:vFormer Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged as the Director-General of the World Trade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-28T17:18:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/download-5f99a7d1d31e9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"183\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Okonjo-Iweala emerges WTO DG\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-28T17:18:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\"},\"wordCount\":100,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/download-5f99a7d1d31e9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"World Trade Organisation\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/okonjo-iweala-emerges-wto-dg\",\"name\":\"Okonjo-Iweala emerges WTO DG - 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