{"id":35433,"date":"2024-06-20T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35433"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:07:25","slug":"oxford-university-honors-okonjo-iweala-with-doctorate-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/20\/oxford-university-honors-okonjo-iweala-with-doctorate-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University Honors Okonjo-Iweala with Doctorate Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford, England.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing photos via her X handle on Wednesday, June 19, she wrote: &#8220;A great honour to be recognised today by Oxford University with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D.litt. honoris causa). A marvellous ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre followed by receptions at All Souls and St Johns Colleges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35438 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwyxWwAAPMD0-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwyxWwAAPMD0-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwyxWwAAPMD0-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwyxWwAAPMD0.jpeg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The ceremony featured Chancellor Lord Christopher Patten and Vice Chancellor Dr. Irene Tracey, along with five other honorees: Sir Michael Palin, Warren East, Sir Demis Hassabis, Professor Salim Yusuf, and Anoushka Shankar. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala attended with her husband, Dr. Ikemba Iweala, and her daughter, Dr. Onyi Iweala.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35439\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwy2XwAAfVFG-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwy2XwAAfVFG-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwy2XwAAfVFG-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwy2XwAAfVFG-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GQgUwy2XwAAfVFG.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford, England. Sharing photos via her X handle on Wednesday, June 19, she wrote: &#8220;A great honour to be recognised today by Oxford University with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D.litt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":35434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35440,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions\/35440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}