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African Development Bank Group President and African Union Commission Chairperson discuss Africa’s challenges and solutions at impromptu Dakar…

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina was relaxing at Dakar’s Blaise-Diagne International Airport VIP lounge with Senegal’s Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation, Amadou Hott, on Wednesday, when another VIP transit passenger unexpectedly joined them. Adesina had just arrived in Dakar to start a three-day official visit at the invitation of President Macky Sall. The other VIP… Read More
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That Pastor Tunde Bakare And This Bolaji Akinyemi, By Bolaji Akinyemi

Elwin Mandowa,
“I do not know this Bolaji Akinyemi that every one confuses with our well respected statesman Prof. Bolaji A. Akinyemi, the former Minister of External Affairs who was in my house last Saturday to fellowship with me”. – Pastor Tunde Bakare.  Those are excerpts from a comment made by Pastor Tunde Bakare (PTB) in his response to Rev Aboderin. I’m… Read More
Africa Business World 

Infocus International introduces online workshop on FinTech & Crypto

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– – Infocus International Group, a global business intelligence provider of strategic information and professional services, has launched a brand new online workshop –FinTech & Cryptocurrency which will be commencing live on 9 March 2022. This is a live online course running over seven sessions. The first two sessions cover FinTech that enable and disrupt existing banking practices by using… Read More
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Why Nigeria “Can’t” Remove Fuel Subsidy: The Danger Of Political Corruption, By Shakir Akorede

Elwin Mandowa,
On November 23, 2021 when the Nigerian Government announced it will remove petroleum subsidy in 2022, every Nigerian got a blasting hit of the national panic attack. Since the pronouncement, Nigerians had been losing their sleep, making the country a tinderbox where protests could explode at any moment as the usual reaction to fuel subsidy removal. As pundits and the… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Lt-Col Damiba: The man behind the coup in Burkina Faso

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– – The latest coup in Burkina Faso has added to the growing concerns about the return of military takeovers in parts of Africa. Details are now emerging about the soldier behind the coup that toppled President Roch Kaboré this month. Lt-Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is the man responsible for the coup in Burkina Faso. The 41 year old who… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

He Taught Us How To Teach By Learning (For Ayo Bamgbose at 90) By Niyi Osundare

Elwin Mandowa,
     When I called him the “doyen of African linguistics”  in my valedictory lecture at the  University of Ibadan in July 2005 (a celebratory oriki which, to my greatest delight, has caught on since then),  I did so with not the slightest fear of exaggeration or effusive adulation. Pioneer, pathfinder, scholar, teacher, administrator, relentless researcher, and organizer par excellence, … Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank President Adesina and Nigerian Governors resolve to advance Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone Initiative in Nigeria

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina received four Nigerian executive governors and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) at the Bank’s Abidjan head office on Tuesday. The Bank President invited the Governors and the NSIA head to discuss what will be the rapid rollout of the first phase of the Bank’s Special Agro-Industrial… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

2023 Presidential Election: The Feast Of Fools By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
Poverty, terrorism, hunger, violence, chaos, killings, make for tantalizing fiction. Nigerians, what do you do when that drama is everyday reality around you? Nigeria was founded on representative democracy. It has devolved into a country where tyrants rise to power, citizens blindly follow, and the entire country is in ruins. Ancient Greek philosophers saw this and warned against it: “Chaotic… Read More
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Ghanaians mourn the country’s first female Army General

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– – Ghana’s first female General in the Armed Forces (GAF), Constance Ama Emefa Edjeani-Afenu has been reported dead. Local media reported that she died at the 37 military hospital on Monday 24 January 2022, after a short illness. Edjeani-Afenu was the first female to occupy that position after recently also becoming the first female to be appointed Brigadier General. Ghanaians on social… Read More
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