Politics
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, met and discussed ways to create jobs for young people and support women and children, Okonjo-Iweala, told journalists after the meeting on Tuesday.
According to Okonjo-Iweala, who was accompanied by Ali Pate, a former Minister of State for Health under Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, the young people, women and children bore the brunt of the suffering in the country.
The meeting with President Tinubu comes two months after both leaders met in France at the Global Pact Summit in Paris hosted by President Emmanuel Macron.
Okonjo-Iweala served twice as Nigeria’s Finance Minister between 2003 and 2006 as well as from 2011 to 2015, the first woman to hold the position.
She also spent a 25-year career at the World Bank rising to the Number 2 position of Managing Director.
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– Aug. 09, 2023 @ 11:41 GMT |
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