The World Health Organisation (WHO) has named the new COVID-19 strain as ‘Omicron’ and classified it as a variant of concern. The discovery of Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend...
The director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Okonjo-Iweala, says she is still enjoying her job and has no plans of resigning as reported. On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that she considered resignation due to the “organisation’s...
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged nations across the globe set aside $50bn to vaccinate 40 per cent of the world population because it is key to economic recovery. Okonjo-Iweala...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Adamu Abdulahmid as the new Nigeria’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, for a period of four years. The appointment is contained in a letter...
The Federal Government says it will continue to engage in fisheries subsidies negotiations, in order to achieve balanced and equitable outcomes from the forthcoming WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC-12) on fisheries subsidies. Minister of Industry, Trade...
The Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Mr. Tony Elumelu, yesterday urged governments and business leaders in Africa to prioritise youth empowerment and job creation...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has opened applications for its 2022 young professional programme (YPP), which provides opportunity for young professionals to enhance their knowledge of the organisation and international trade issues. In 2021, 14 professionals...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says Nigeria is the number one importer of commercial services in Africa. In its report on the ‘Leading Exporters and Importers of Commercial services excluding intra-EU Trade 2020’, released on Friday,...
The European Union has written the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the Central Bank of Nigeria’s ban of official foreign exchange for milk import, saying it distorts the balance of payment protocol. The WTO Director General,...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the newly elected director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has arrived in Nigeria for a one-week working visit. It is her first visit to Nigeria since she assumed office as the first female...