{"id":92282,"date":"2024-11-29T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T12:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92282"},"modified":"2024-11-29T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T12:19:57","slug":"okonjo-iweala-to-remain-wtos-dg-until-2029-after-reappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92282","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala to remain WTO&#8217;s DG until 2029 after reappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Nigeria\u2019s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has officially secured a second term as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The 70 years old, who was a Minister under former President Olusegun Obasano, announced her intention to seek a second term in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Ambassador Petter \u00d8lberg of Norway, chair of the General Council, had informed WTO members that no other nominations were received before the 8 November deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">WTO on its verified X page (formerly Twitter) on Friday, November 29 confirmed Okonjo-Iweala&#8217;s appointment. It said: \u201cBreaking: the General Council has appointed Director-General @NOIweala for a second term, effective 1 September 2025. More details to follow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Her current tenure, which began in March 2021, is set to conclude in August 2025.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_241129_130749_593.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has officially secured a second term as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The 70 years old, who was a Minister under former President Olusegun Obasano, announced her intention to seek a second term in September. Ambassador Petter \u00d8lberg of Norway, chair of the General Council, had informed WTO members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":92284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,7],"tags":[6869,2920,1468],"class_list":["post-92282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-jobs","category-news","tag-6869","tag-dg","tag-okonjo-iweala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}