{"id":276051,"date":"2020-10-30T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=276051"},"modified":"2020-10-30T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:38:24","slug":"okonjo-iweala-details-of-buharis-meeting-with-european-council-president-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=276051","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala: Details of Buhari&#8217;s meeting with European Council President emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a video conference with Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council, during which the latter reiterated Europe\u2019s support for Nigeria\u2019s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).<br \/>\nThe President is leading Nigeria\u2019s charge for Okonjo-Iweala, the country\u2019s former Minister of Finance, to emerge as the first Black and female WTO DG.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari thanked the European Council for its support for Nigeria\u2019s candidate.<br \/>\nAlso discussed during the conference were issues bordering on debt relief for Africa, EU-African relations and recharge of Lake Chad, which has currently shrunk to less than one-third of its usual size.<br \/>\nThe lake has reportedly thrown about 130 million people who depend on it for their livelihoods into dire straits.<br \/>\nRecharge of the Lake Chad basin is an issue the Nigerian President had vigorously canvassed for at different global fora in recent times.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari expressed appreciation to Mr Michel for expected positive developments on the issues raised.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a video conference with Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council, during which the latter reiterated Europe\u2019s support for Nigeria\u2019s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The President is leading Nigeria\u2019s charge for Okonjo-Iweala, the country\u2019s former Minister of Finance, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,15775],"class_list":["post-276051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-wto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}