The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed how a deliberate communication strategy contributed to Nigeria’s success in securing a landmark debt relief deal from the Paris Club during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Okonjo-Iweala, who was Finance Minister during the period, disclosed this on Wednesday at the public presentation of The Pain and the Promise, a new book written by communications expert and public affairs analyst, Paul Nwabuikwu.
She said she was brought into the Federal Government’s economic team from the World Bank in 2003 to help strengthen Nigeria’s weak public finances, including negotiations aimed at eliminating the country’s estimated $30…