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Annual Development Effectiveness Report credits African Development Bank with impressive results despite Covid-19 pandemic

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank played a critical role in supporting millions of people across the continent, affected by the impact of the Covid19 pandemic in 2020. This is according to its latest Annual Development Effectiveness Review released on Tuesday. The pandemic caused fiscal deficits to double and indebtedness to rise sharply, reducing the capacity of African countries to invest in… Read More
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Amnesty For Nnamdi Kanu, By Reuben Abati

Elwin Mandowa,
In a recent interview with Arise TV, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN had indicated that the Federal Government of Nigeria may consider a political solution to the matters involving Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Biafra (IPOB) and Sunday Igboho, the self-determination, Yoruba Nation activist, currently in custody and on trial… Read More
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Anti-Corruption And Other NGOs/CSOs Uphold The Fraudulent 1999 Constitution Of Nigeria, By Ndidi Uwechue

Elwin Mandowa,
If not for the NINAS Movement and their proclamation of Constitutional Force Majeure on 16th December 2020 that started the process to decommission the illegitimate 1999 Constitution, ordinary Nigerians would never have started to find out that that document, a forgery, is the source of their miseries. All this while they had been deceived by those who should have cared enough… Read More
Africa Investments 

2nd CII-India Eximbank Summit on Innovative Financing Partnership with Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
What: 2nd CII-India Eximbank Summit on Innovative Financing Partnership with Africa Who: African Development Bank When: 24 November 2021; 08:00-13:30 GMT Where: Virtual Solomon Quaynor, Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization at the African Development Bank, will join senior officials and CEOs from India’s leading companies in a conversation at the Second CII-India Eximbank Summit on Innovative Financing… Read More
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Kenya’s government to deny services to unvaccinated citizens

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– – From next month, Kenyans who haven’t been vaccinated against Covid-19 will be prevented from accessing government services. The move is aimed at increasing the population of Kenyans who have been vaccinated against covid-19. According to the country’s Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe, unvaccinated people would be banned from public transport, local airlines and train services. He said in a statement that… Read More
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Nnamdi Kanu And The Echoes Of Freedom, By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
Last week a high-powered delegation of notable Igbo elder statesmen led by the 93-year old First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amaechi, visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Abuja. The former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the Methodist Church, former President of Igbo socio-cultural group, Aka Ikenga, Goddy Uwazurike and Tagbo Amaechi were also… Read More
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The Massacre At The Lekki Toll Gate, By Femi Falana (SAN)

Elwin Mandowa,
For several years, the human rights community had called for the prosecution of the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) over incessant arrests, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of citizens. As such calls were ignored by the authorities the SARS intensified the brutalization of citizens particularly young people. The video of the reckless killing of an unarmed young… Read More
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In Defence Of Lagos #EndSARS Panelists, By Elias Ozikpu

Elwin Mandowa,
The entire world turned its attention to Nigeria that bloody evening of Tuesday, October 20, 2020 when heavily armed Nigerian soldiers stormed the Lekki Tollgate, epicentre of #EndSARS protest and opened gunfire on peaceful demonstrators who were seated on the floor whilst singing the national anthem and waving the national flag. Knowing how untrustworthy Nigerian politicians are, the entire world… Read More
Africa Investments 

Africa Investment Forum 2021: billions more expected in new investments for the continent

Elwin Mandowa,
The Africa Investment Forum’s Market Days 2021, one of the biggest flagship initiatives of the African Development Bank, is poised to attract billions of dollars in investment for strategic development projects across the continent. The annual forum has come to be an invaluable platform during which the Bank successfully attracts critical investment for the continent’s infrastructure, agriculture and health care… Read More
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Sunday Igboho & Nnamdi Kanu’s Travail: Yoruba Leaders Need To Learn From The Igbos By Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq.

Elwin Mandowa,
Too often in socio-political conversations, claims of the Igbo man’s disunity is held as a badgering totem to rationalize the ‘how and why’ of the entire tribe receiving the short end of the political stick in the chequered history of this country. From suffering through the civil war pogrom to targeted discrimination in the eco-political and federal setup of Nigeria… Read More
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