Armaggedon:
Is a grandmother suppose to be an insult?

It is no relevant to her position and portrays her as not having any credible qualifications for the position.

YorubaPrince:


BS! She was a two time Finance Minister under the most corrupt government Nigeria ever had.

Yet, till date none of the detractors of the previous government can point to any financial infraction on her part. If you can, present such a case against her let us hear.

StaffofOrayan:
Until we keep Nigeria as it is, we would keep being ridiculed by the world because we would keep getting poorer and slide into the levels of Somalia, if we don't break this monster, we will all become like the North, and it's going to get wayyy worse in the North,

Why don't we as blacks ever take time out to see what the future holds? It took the world bank to tell us we are going to get poorer

Not about being a Nigerian but an African with black race

pocohantas:
So it is now racist to refer to NOI as a grandmother? But it is feminist to tell her to focus on her career titles rather than personal ones, as in the case of Hilary Clinton?

Confused lots.

For me it's inappropriate not rascist. Why not use another word like amazon.

Armaggedon:
Is a grandmother suppose to be an insult?

you think insult is when you call someone an idiot or stupid? Infact using the word "THIS" man, woman, black or white when you know the person name is regarded as a racist abuse, if you must address somebody especially a black man or a black woman in a white dorminated area or country without using his or her name then you must use the word sir or ma hence your word would be classify as having a racist undertone.

Armaggedon:
Is a grandmother suppose to be an insult?

It's the motive behind the description that matters. Passive-aggressive racists. Like the Brits.

tritt:
E dey their blood,awon racist. But make we even reason am small, this woman has got brainssssss.

Now see this part.

Okonjo-Iweala has a Bachelor’s in economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds honourary degrees from over a dozen universities globally.

She was a two-time minister of finance in Nigeria and minister of foreign affairs. She is the first female to take up both jobs.

She is a board member at Twitter, Standard Chartered Bank, and African Risk Capacity. The 66-year-old was up till February 2021, the co-chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.

She is a member Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) international advisory board; IMF external advisory board; and AU special envoy.

She won the global finance minister of the year 2005 by Euromoney. She was one of the top 100 most influential people in the World for 2014 by TIME Magazine.

She was also one of the top 100 global thinkers for 2011 and 2012 by Foreign Policy.

The top 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes Magazine would not have been complete in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 without her name.

She holds some of the highest national honours from Nigeria, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire.

Kudos Madame!!!!

And more to it is her balanced family life.
Her husband is a successful surgeon in the U.K
She has four kids, 3 of which are surgeons (Neurosurgery and spine surgery, orthopedics and trauma surgeon and a physician both in the US and in Europe).
Her last child is also an Havard graduate.
She is a blessed woman among women.

pocohantas:
So it is now racist to refer to NOI as a grandmother? But it is feminist to tell her to focus on her career titles rather than personal ones, as in the case of Hilary Clinton?

Confused lots.

They did that to denigrate her. Why didn't they refer to Angela Merkel as a grandmother? Aren't they age mates. It's not so much the name "grandmother" as the motive behind the name.
Is the director General of the WTO on the basis of being a grandma? Or did she really earn that position?

it's not a big deal. Racism is here to stay. not stopping soon. we have to manage it

Leave all this snowflakes being a grandmother is part of her achievement in life as her other qualifications. If the newspaper decide its the attribute about her that they want to headline their news paper that's fine. All these mob online always base virtually everything on emotion (sad).

Armaggedon:
Is a grandmother suppose to be an insult?

tritt:
E dey their blood,awon racist. But make we even reason am small, this woman has got brainssssss.

Now see this part.

Okonjo-Iweala has a Bachelor’s in economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds honourary degrees from over a dozen universities globally.

She was a two-time minister of finance in Nigeria and minister of foreign affairs. She is the first female to take up both jobs.

She is a board member at Twitter, Standard Chartered Bank, and African Risk Capacity. The 66-year-old was up till February 2021, the co-chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.

She is a member Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) international advisory board; IMF external advisory board; and AU special envoy.

She won the global finance minister of the year 2005 by Euromoney. She was one of the top 100 most influential people in the World for 2014 by TIME Magazine.

She was also one of the top 100 global thinkers for 2011 and 2012 by Foreign Policy.

The top 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes Magazine would not have been complete in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 without her name.

She holds some of the highest national honours from Nigeria, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire.

Kudos Madame!!!!

bro leave all those qualifications. i am a first class graduated of uniben and e no mean say i sabi book like that

E pain dem die!!

But our oga need to answer. We must hear from Garba Shehu or Lai Mohammed otherwise we no go gree.

superCleanworks:


get a life
your family is still chained to poverty as full time slaves yet EVERYDAY AND NIGHT you are here saying you want to make people rich with sure bet.

na you dey play the ball?

please pity your family and make yourself useful.

cant you guys mind your business atleast for ones. They are some things you might be doing that millions of people would dislike and they are somethings that same millions of people might be doing that you would also dislike vice versa, maybe as it stand now, you are smoking, drinking or womanizing and yet this same person you are insulting does not involve himself in such. No one is perfect, as long as someone is not stealing or scaming people, never conderm their hustle because you never can tell, peace

guy222:
cant you guys mind your business atleast for ones. They are some things you might be doing that millions of people would dislike and they are somethings that same millions of people might be doing that you would also dislike vice versa, maybe as it stand now, you are smoking, drinking or womanizing and yet this same person you are insulting does not involve himself in such. No one is perfect, as long as someone is not stealing or scaming people, never conderm their hustle because you never can tell, peace

i know it is the same scammer that is using another account to talk this rubbish. get a life

DennisEche:
SEE WETIN AFONJA CAUSE, LEARN TO VALUE YOUR OWN

sorry ooo wetin afonja cause? white dey insult our pride in on Nigeria and Africa at large we con dey one tribe. be careful.
seriously I noticed that when a foreigner insult Nigerians, we always unite to blast them

In the herbs of elephants the older females are the leader.

Dpaulie:

Not about being a Nigerian but an African with black race

Black people in Africa mostly don't have a plan,
Majority didn't fight for independence, they negotiated to continue the structures of colonialism,
from the mode and structure of governance to the security architecture that only seems to be effective in being a colonial tool for oppressing the natives by first the whites and now their stooges,

Racist oshi...

Leave our grandmother, we like her like that.

Freestainworld:
What ever they like, let them call her, as far as she's occupying the position which is the most important thing, the whites are just in a state of shock that an African, a woman for that matter will be occupying the highly coveted position.

They started the hate before blacks started copying. I don't have any blame for the yahoo boys who swindle them of hard currencies - they deserve more than yahoo.

The whites never liked the blacks, but forgot they only survived because the blacks always forgives. For the world to stand firm till date: the Blacks will always be the people to feed, supply, cook, clean, serve, protect, suffer, be jailed, be mocked and above all, be killed that Love may reign.

The 66yrs old Igbo Woman is the DG - that's the end of the story. She comes and she remains till the constitution re-directs. Shalom!

90mat:
You see why racism can never end

tribalism hasnt ended among people of the same race, you are talking of ending racism!

topboss:
IF U WERE EXPECTING NOI TO BE ACCEPTED BY WHITES WITHOUT RACISM, THEN U ARE FROM A DIFFERENT PLANET.



TRUMP PROBLEM WITH HER WAS BLACK.





TO AN EXTENT, I DONT BLAME THE WHITE, THAT IS THE IMPRESSION WE LEAVE THEM, SINCE WE MADE AFRICA THE POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

Racism in the West started way before Europeans even encountered black people. You can't attempt to justify hatred.

Weda Dem like am or not nah she be the DG till baba God says otherwise.

Mightyhaiz:
Whats wrong with a 66 year old Nigerian grandmother if she can more than deliver..?

..or is it because she is African? Most world leaders are grand parents..

shut up if you don't have anything meaningful to say...

They simply says it the way it is . Na here una dey cover rubbish . Ain't she happy to be a working class grandmother ?

RlCHSATAN:
bro leave all those qualifications. i am a first class graduated of uniben and e no mean say i sabi book like that

we did not ask you about your degree oversabi

RuddyFusion:
shut up if you don't have anything meaningful to say...

what i wrote cant be faulted.. except the faulter is without brains

You obviously don't understand how the media brainwashing works.

Was she made the WTO DG because she's 66 years old or a grandmother?

Of what use are these "qualifying tags" to the message they are trying to pass?

Mightyhaiz:
Whats wrong with a 66 year old Nigerian grandmother if she can more than deliver..?

..or is it because she is African? Most world leaders are grand parents..

Resurrection212:
What's wrong there? Does she not a grandmother before?

She does not a grandmother before na !!

Russia: a racist country

banmee:


I don't understand. Is she not 66 and is she not a grandmother?

I wonder. When did calling grandmithers what they are become an insult

And they have not described buhari as a 77 yrs old ancestor

Nonsense.