Nigeria, April 16 -- A tribute to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's quiet defiance and global stewardship in a fractured trading world.

In a world fragmenting under the weight of tariffs and retaliation, where supply chains tangle like barbed wire across geographies, and the language of cooperation seems drowned beneath waves of nationalism, fear, and competitive distrust, she stands- not as an echo from the past, but as a steward of relevance, offering clarity where others trade in chaos.

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They doubted the purpose of Geneva's quiet chambers, called the WTO a relic of a war-weary century an aging monument to multilateral optimism. But she arrived not to defend nostalgia, nor to sit quietly in procedural drift. She came with fire in her eyes and ...