{"id":37151,"date":"2021-02-15T17:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=37151"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:31:55","slug":"ngozi-okonjo-iweala-makes-history-confirmed-as-wto-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-makes-history-confirmed-as-wto-dg","title":{"rendered":"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history, confirmed as WTO DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Dr Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the WTO.<\/p>\n<p>WTO confirmed her appointment at a special meeting of the General Council, following a selection process that included eight candidates from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet read: \u201cNgozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria is appointed as the next WTO Director-General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer term starts on the 1st of March 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Okonjo-Iweala becomes the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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The tweet read: \u201cNgozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria is appointed as the next WTO Director-General. \u201cHer term starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,3027,254,3028],"class_list":["post-37151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-ngozi-okonjo-iweala","tag-nigeria","tag-wto"],"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>Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history, confirmed as WTO DG - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the WTO. 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