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Africa Investments 

“Africa cannot outsource its healthcare security to the benevolence of others”

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that the most important lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic for Africa is the need to build a defense mechanism against external shocks, especially in healthcare and financial security. “Investing in health is investing in national security,” Adesina told African leaders on Saturday, at the opening of the 35th African Union… Read More
Africa Investments 

“Africa cannot outsource its healthcare security to the benevolence of others”

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that the most important lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic for Africa is the need to build a defense mechanism against external shocks, especially in healthcare and financial security. “Investing in health is investing in national security,” Adesina told African leaders on Saturday, at the opening of the 35th African Union… Read More
Africa Investments 

“Africa cannot outsource its healthcare security to the benevolence of others”

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that the most important lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic for Africa is the need to build a defense mechanism against external shocks, especially in healthcare and financial security. “Investing in health is investing in national security,” Adesina told African leaders on Saturday, at the opening of the 35th African Union… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Nigerian Subsidy And The Real Subsidisers By Niyi Osundare

Elwin Mandowa,
Here, in plain, unsubsidized language      Are the basic facts   About the fabled Nigerian “subsidy”      Whose endless lies have besieged our ears We the Nigerian people subsidize      The rampant CORRUPTION of our rulers We the Nigerian people subsidize      Their fatal incompetence and prodigal greed We the Nigerian people subsidize      Those government budgets and their recurrent plunder Those capital expenditures which total… Read More
Africa Senegal World 

35th African Union summit opens in Addis Ababa

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– – The 35th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and government opened on Saturday in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Last year’s summit was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic but this year’s event has brought together the African leaders for an in-person event. The 55-member union is holding this summit for the next two… Read More
Africa Senegal World 

35th African Union summit opens in Addis Ababa

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , ,
– – The 35th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and government opened on Saturday in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Last year’s summit was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic but this year’s event has brought together the African leaders for an in-person event. The 55-member union is holding this summit for the next two… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Military Coup Pandemic Across West Africa… By Chido Nwangwu

Elwin Mandowa,
Between January 23-24, 2022, there was a military coup in Burkina Faso which ousted elected President Roch Kabore, and suspended the constitution.  In the evening of January 27, 2022, I was invited to do live interview and analyses of the unfolding, fast-paced events in late Thomas Sankara’s home land of Burkina Faso, on one of the most influential news networks… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Russians, Not Ukrainians Should Brace Up For Attack, By Owei Lakemfa

Elwin Mandowa,
The United States, US, and its European allies have, for months now, saturated the world and choked the media on a poorly dramatised soap opera about Russia on the verge of ‘invading’ Ukraine. In this, they have succeeded in diverting the attention of humanity from pressing issues like tackling the Omicron variant of COVID-19, growing hunger and poverty made worse… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Pandemic Of Ritual Killings For Money Making… By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
In Nigeria today, we live in a culture of death, of human degradation of vain-glory and cynical denigration of our fellow beings. Nigerians are living a life that is, to quote Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish, and short.” As Timothy Adegoke the graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife a victim of ritual killing for money making who was murdered at… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

China And Europe: Foreign Lenders, Beware! Nigeria Is A Disputed Project! By Ndidi Uwechue

Elwin Mandowa,
On February 1, 2022, Nigerians heard some more dismal news from Rotimi Amaechi, the country’s Minister of Transportation, blaming China for the delay in some major infrastructural projects. He announced, “We are stuck with lots of our projects because we cannot get money. The Chinese are no longer funding. So, we are now pursuing money in Europe.” From the news… Read More
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