{"id":5596,"date":"2023-12-06T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/forbes-names-ngozi-okonjo-iwela-most-powerful-woman-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:02:52","slug":"forbes-names-ngozi-okonjo-iwela-most-powerful-woman-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/forbes-names-ngozi-okonjo-iwela-most-powerful-woman-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes names Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela, most powerful woman in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named the most powerful woman in Africa on Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes\u2019 20th annual ranking released on Tuesday, Okonjo-Iweala, a prominent Nigerian, is positioned at 87th place in the Most Powerful Women in the World list, surpassing Mpumi Madisa, a South African businesswoman at 88th.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian President, Samia Hassan also joined the list at the 93rd spot and Nigerian media mogul and philanthropist, Mo Abudu at 98th.<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission for Impactful Policy and Budget was ranked the most powerful woman in the world for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Lagarde holds the second position as the European Central Bank President, while U.S. Vice President, Kamala Harris came in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes names Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela, most powerful woman in Africa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named the most powerful woman in Africa on Forbes.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6261,15,6262],"tags":[6265,180,6263,6264],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forbes","category-news","category-ngozi-okonjo-iwela","tag-forbes","tag-news","tag-ngozi","tag-okonjo-iwela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}