{"id":73305,"date":"2025-08-15T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73305"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:27:18","slug":"okonjo-iweala-cbn-gov-meet-on-trade-issues-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/15\/okonjo-iweala-cbn-gov-meet-on-trade-issues-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala, CBN Gov Meet on Trade Issues in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, on Thursday hosted the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the bank\u2019s headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door meeting was also attended by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, and Nigeria\u2019s Ambassador to the WTO, Amb. (Dr.) Adamu Abdulhamid.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions focused on trade-related matters and Nigeria\u2019s positioning in the global market.<\/p>\n<p>Although the CBN did not disclose specific details, the presence of these top economic and trade officials underscores a coordinated push to strengthen Nigeria\u2019s economic competitiveness and address critical challenges in international commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting brought together two of Nigeria\u2019s most prominent economic voices; Cardoso, steering the nation\u2019s monetary policy, and Okonjo-Iweala, a global trade leader, reflecting the strategic importance of aligning monetary and trade policies for national growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, on Thursday hosted the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the bank\u2019s headquarters in Abuja. The closed-door meeting was also attended by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, and Nigeria\u2019s Ambassador to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1718,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-finance","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73305","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73307,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73305\/revisions\/73307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}