Two-time finance minister and now World Trade Organization leader Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has also been named as a possible presidential contender in Nigeria (AC Vol 61 No 14 At cross purposes on world trade)...

When President Goodluck Jonathan tried in 2012 to end fuel subsidies backed by his Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi he triggered a strike led by the Nigerian Labour Congress...

The finance summit has been prepared in close coordination with the African Union's special envoys for mobilising funds to tackle Covid-19 including: Tidjane Thiam the Ivorian former CEO of Credit Suisse bank; Rwandan economist and former head of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala head of the World Trade Organization...

The situation has led to calls for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the World Trade Organization's new head to make her first action an initiative to set aside Intellectual Property patent laws to allow for greater production of Covid-19 vaccines 'for the common good' (AC Dispatches Rich countries slowly accept the pitfalls of vaccine nationalism & Despite denials vaccine nationalism is rampant)...