Nigeria’s first female minister of finance and the prime candidate for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Okonjo-Iweala has joined a list of eminent Africans to have received the Forbes award for Africa Person of the Year.
In 2019, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), won the award for his outstanding work at the bank and a sterling career in agriculture and finance.
Paul Kagame of Rwanda won the same award in 2018.
Other eminent Nigerians to have bagged the award are Muhammad Sanusi II (2013), former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; Aliko Dangote (2014), president of the Dangote Group.
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