Nigeria’s successful negotiation of about $30 billion in Paris Club debt relief was made possible not only by difficult economic reforms but also by a deliberate effort to explain those policies to Nigerians in clear, simple language, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said.
Speaking in Abuja at the public presentation of The Pain and the Promise, a new book by communications strategist Paul Nwabuikwu, Okonjo-Iweala said public understanding and trust were essential to the success of the economic reform programme carried out during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
She recalled returning from the World Bank in 2003 with the responsibility of rebuilding…