{"id":288204,"date":"2020-12-02T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=288204"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:59:05","slug":"okonjo-iweala-reacts-after-emerging-forbes-africa-person-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=288204","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala reacts after emerging Forbes Africa Person of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Nigeria Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2020.<br \/>\nForbes Africa in a tweet on Tuesday said the former Minister has been named \u201cThe 2020 African person of the Year.\u201d<br \/>\nReacting, Okonjo-Iweala, who is set to become the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization, said she is thrilled.<br \/>\n\u201cThrilled to be named Forbes Africa-CNBC \u20182020 African of the Year\u2019 following in the footsteps of my great brothers Paul Kagame and Akin Adesina.<br \/>\n\u201cThis award is for Africans suffering the health and economic impact of COVID-19. The energy and resilience of Africans inspires me,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nRecall that Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), won the award for his outstanding work in agriculture and finance in 2019.<br \/>\nAlso, Paul Kagame of Rwanda won the same award in 2018.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2020. Forbes Africa in a tweet on Tuesday said the former Minister has been named \u201cThe 2020 African person of the Year.\u201d Reacting, Okonjo-Iweala, who is set to become the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288205,"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":[2658,1465],"class_list":["post-288204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ngozi-okonjo-iweala"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288204","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=288204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}