Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s candidate for the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is currently holding a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock.
The former minister of finance was announced as one of the two final candidates in the WTO election alongside Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean candidate.
She was accompanied to the villa by Niyi Adebayo, the minister of industry, trade and investment, Zubair Dada, the minister of state for foreign affairs, and Maryam Katagum, the minister of state for industry, trade and investment.
Okonjo-Iweala, 66, served as her country’s first female finance and foreign minister, and has a 25-year career behind her as a development economist at the World Bank, eventually becoming its number two.
She is also on Twitter’s board of directors and is a special envoy for the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 fight.
