President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the nomination of a former Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
This was confirmed by one of President Buhari’s media aides, Bashir Ahmaad, on Twitter on Thursday night.
The president initially nominated Nigeria’s permanent representative to WTO, Yono Frederick Agah, for the same role, but was later withdrawn
The election will hold in Geneva, Switzerland in 2021.
The four-year term would then run from 2021 to 2025, after the former director-general of the organisation, Roberto Azevedo, stepped down a year to the end of his second term.
Okonjo-Iweala currently chairs the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, a public-private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries.
She also sits on the board of Twitter, and is a former managing director (operations) at the World Bank.
