{"id":16819,"date":"2024-11-29T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:30:31","slug":"ngozi-okonjo-iweala-reappointed-as-wto-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-reappointed-as-wto-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reappointed as WTO Director General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been reappointed as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>In the month of September, 70-year-old Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced her aspiration for a second tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Petter \u00d8lberg of Norway, Chair of the General Council, announced to WTO members that no other nominations were received before the deadline which was on November 8.<\/p>\n<p>The reports from global trade institution states that the reappointment will take effect on September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The post read,<em> \u201cBreaking: the General Council has appointed Director-General @NOIweala for a second term, effective 1 September 2025. More details to follow.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>World Trade Organisation (WTO) 166 member countries conducted a consensus which led to the reappointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been reappointed as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General for a second term. In the month of September, 70-year-old Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced her aspiration for a second tenure. Ambassador Petter \u00d8lberg of Norway, Chair of the General Council, announced to WTO members that no other nominations were received before the deadline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1710,1708,1709],"class_list":["post-16819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ambassador-petter-olberg-of-norway","tag-ngozi-okonjo-iweala","tag-world-trade-organisation-wto-director-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16837,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions\/16837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}