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  Popular Nigerian economist and development expert, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has hit another milestone in her career after emerging as the first Nigerian woman to win the Forbes Africa Person of the Year award (for 2020). Ngozi (former Nigerian Finance Minister) is equally in pole position to become the next Director-General of world trade ruling body, the World Trade Organization (WTO). She now joins the list of prominent Africans to clinch the award won by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda in 2018.
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Other Nigerians to have won the award in the past include the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mohammed Sanusi II, who won the first edition of the award in 2011. President of the African Development Bank (AFDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has won the award twice (2013, and 2019) for his exploits as president of the AFDB and his outstanding career as an agriculturist and financial expert. Africa’s richest man and president of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, won the prize in 2014. A delighted Iweala while reacting to the news, dedicated the prize to Africans battling health and socio-economic challenges in a COVID-19 era that has disrupted the global economic order.
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‘It is a great honour to serve Africa in different capacities. I look forward to deploying my energies at the WTO for Africa and the world.’ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi’s latest award comes just weeks after the Chair of the General Council of the WTO, David Walker, and Facilitators of the process for the appointment of the DG, officially submitted her name as the best candidate to lead the organisation. Source: The Cable NG Featured Image Source: @firbesafrica – Twitter
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This article was first published on 4th December 2020 and updated on December 7th, 2020 at 8:46 pm

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