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Month: August 2020

Africa Investments 

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina re-elected unanimously as President of the African Development Bank Group

Elwin Mandowa,
Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank Group on Thursday, August 27, 2020 by the Board of Governors of the Bank. A globally renowned development economist and a World Food Prize Laureate and Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Adesina has distinguished himself in driving a bold agenda… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank 2020 Annual Meetings: Governors’ Dialogue: a key moment of the meetings

Elwin Mandowa,
On the first day of the African Development Bank’s 2020 Annual Meetings, President Akinwumi Adesina on Wednesday 26 August 2020, outlined the Bank’s successes and challenges. During a virtual dialogue with the Governors of the Bank’s 81 member countries, Adesina highlighted the Bank’s efforts to ensure that African countries were cushioned against the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April,… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Mali’s Mathematics Of Elections By Steve Ogah

Elwin Mandowa,
The coup leaders in Mali are a bunch of disillusioned military men. There are certain areas to point to in their intents, speeches and body languages which indicates they have failed to understand that the world now abhors military dictatorship.  Ever since they catapulted themselves to power on the boisterous waves of anti-president Ibrahim Keita’s civil revolts, colonel Assimi Goita and… Read More
Africa Investments 

Curtain falls on the African Development Bank 2020 Annual Meetings as Governors endorse President Adesina’s bold development program

Elwin Mandowa,
Newly reelected African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina voiced great optimism about Africa’s future as the institution closed its 55th Annual meetings. The Bank’s Board of Governors today unanimously voted for a second five-year term for Adesina, giving him a mandate to renew a focus on the institution’s priorities, including closer continental integration, boosting renewable energy sources and developing infrastructure.… Read More
Africa Investments 

Highlights: Day 1 of the African Development Bank’s 2020 Annual Meeting

Elwin Mandowa,
The opening day of the African Development Bank’s 2020 55th Annual meeting showcased the strong relationship between Africa’s pre-eminent financial institution and its host country, Côte d’Ivoire. The meeting, held virtually for the first time to comply with COVID-19 pandemic social-distancing guidelines, caps a productive but ultimately challenging year for the institution and the countries it serves.    “This is an… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

#YNaijaBBNCoverage: Here’s how we are rating the music performance of the housemates

Village Reporter,
Day 38 in the Big Brother Naija house was all about music vibes. The housemates woke up to a vibrant morning of working up a sweat during workouts, taking care of chores, and of course, attending to the Pepsi tasks for the day. Like yesterday, the housemates were required to prepare for a contest. Of course there was the possibility… Read More
Africa Investments 

Malawi: the Mzuzu-Nkhata Bay road now among the country’s safest roads, thanks to African Development Bank support

Elwin Mandowa,
A five-year project to rehabilitate the Mzuzu-Nkhata Bay road with African Development Bank financing has made the road one of Malawi’s safest, according to the project’s completion report. The project, began in 2013, wrapped up in 2018.  The road was formerly very narrow and poorly maintained, and it required an hour and a half to travel the 50 kilometres between… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Nigeria-US Relations: Questing For Ambassador Adefuye’s Template By Olufemi Soneye

Elwin Mandowa,
“There are ambassadors who are here years, and pass on, and no one notices that they were ever here, that certainly wasn’t the case with Amb. Adefuye” – J. Peter Pham, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, Washington, DC. Demographically and by the size of her economy, Nigeria leads the rest of Africa. Nigeria’s estimated population is more… Read More
Africa Investments 

2020 Annual Meetings: African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina seeks a second term “to serve Africa”

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Wednesday made a case for his re-election as head of the institution, saying that he wanted to fulfil “his sense of duty and commitment.” Adesina recalled that his current five-year term as head of the African Development Bank Group was marked by the implementation of five strategic priorities for the continent’s development, known… Read More