Nigeria shares 0.33 per cent of world trade, 19 per cent of African trade ― WTO DG Nigeria shares 0.33 per cent of world trade, 19 per cent of African trade ― WTO DG
• To provide technical assistance for the country
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has revealed that Nigeria has shares of 0.33 per cent in world trade and holds 19 per cent shares in African trade.
Speaking, on Monday, in Abuja, while on a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, the Director-General of WTO, Dr Ngozi Iweala, said Nigeria was active at the world trade in the area of agriculture.
“Nigeria is very active in agriculture bearing in mind that we have a diversified economy in Nigeria, where agriculture is extremely important even though we don’t have a diversified source of revenue but we have a diversified economy.
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The Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwazo has welcomed the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Iweala into Nigeria.
Dr. Iweala arrived Nigeria in the Afternoon of Saturday air route Ethopian airline for a one week working visit.
The DG is expected to meet with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Otunba Adebayo, the Minister stated for Industry, Trade and Investment, Amb. Mariam Katagum one Monday Morning.
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Dr. Ngozi is also expected to meet with the President, the Economic Team of the Federal government and the business community.
“I feel ready to go.”
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ON March 1, a good working Monday, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister and the first woman and African to be appointed as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, resumed her first day of work as WTO chief. In welcoming her, the trade organisation said: “Welcome to Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on her first day as WTO Director-General! She makes history as the first woman and first African to take up this post.”
She assumes office in an interesting time when glass ceilings are being shattered into some smithereens.The first interplanetary (Hope) mission of United Arab Emirates, UAE, landed on planet Mars on Tuesday February 9, 2021, first Arab nation to announce an ambition to be on the moon in 2024. A returnee from that historic mission to Mars, reading the global print media coverage of the election of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the seventh Director General of WTO would have rightly assumed the unprecedented f
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