The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday recounted how a deliberate communication strategy helped Nigeria secure the landmark $30 billion Paris Club debt relief during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke at the public presentation of ‘’The Pain and the Promise,’’ a new book by communications expert and public affairs analyst, Paul Nwabuikwu, said she was brought in from the World Bank in 2003 to help restore Nigeria’s public finances, including negotiating the elimination of the country’s estimated $30 billion debt owed to the Paris Club of creditors.
She said the ambitious reform agenda required Nigerians to understand…