Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the newly elected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has arrived in Nigeria for a one-week working visit.
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This is her first visit to Nigeria, since she was appointed as the first female and African to occupy the office on March 1, 2021.
She was received by Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment.
“The whole objective is to see how the WTO can better assist Nigeria and Nigerian entrepreneurs with respect to improving the economy,” she told journalists.
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“We hope to be able to use the African Continental Free Trade agreement to improve our trade and to do that we have to improve investments, we have to add value to some of our products.
“This continental free trade agreement is a unique opportunity for us to be able to engage commercially with other African countries and boost our exports.”
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The Nigeria’s former minister of finance also said she hopes to meet President Muhammadu Buhari and his chief of staff, minister of trade and industry, minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, the governor of the central Bank, the organised private sector as well as the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), and women entrepreneurs.
