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Nigeria’s Chief Trade Negotiator, Chiedu Osakwe, Is Dead

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Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe, Nigeria’s Chief Trade Negotiator and Director General of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiation, is dead.

A tweet via the handle of African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, confirmed his demise on Sunday but without the details of his death.

Osakwe was Nigeria’s Chief Trade Negotiator and Director General of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations.

He chaired the Negotiating Forum of the African Union (AU) from June 2017 to March 2018, during which time the negotiations were concluded on the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

Previously, he was on the staff of the World Trade Organization Secretariat (1998–2017) during which he was a director of a number of WTO divisions.

Prior to the WTO Secretariat, he was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer (1979 to 1998).

 

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