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African Development Bank Members Show Support For Plan To Tackle Covid-19 At Annual Meeting

June 26, 2021 0

*Adesina also pledged that the Bank would strengthen support to African countries as they tackle the pandemic’s economic and health impacts The African Development Bank Group’s (www.AfDB.org) shareholders have shown strong support for the Bank’s proposals to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, and this as the continent faces the possibility of a third wave of infection amid poor vaccine access. …

BREAKING! Okonjo-Iweala Breaks The Glass Ceiling, Emerges First Female DG Of WTO

October 27, 2020 0

Nigeria’s former finance minister and a former managing director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged as the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization(WTO), shattering the glass ceiling.

Okonjo-Iweala and Cheap Publicity

July 29, 2016 0

By Uzoma Ngozi “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.” – Michael Bassey Johnson, an uncommon Nigerian penman. In a publication titled, “Those Calling for Okonjo-Iweala’s Sack Are Detractors”, The …

If Okonjo-Iweala said it, so it will be!

July 16, 2016 0

We have all, at one time or another, had cause to hear or maybe even use this age-old saying, “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country.” These words, spoken by the Lord Jesus, aptly summarise the story of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s sojourn in the corridors of executive power in Nigeria. Our prophet (for so she must be …