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Ghana: Tidal waves displace hundreds, unearth corpses

Elwin Mandowa, , , , ,
– – Hundreds of people in Ghana’s Volta Region have been rendered homeless after tidal waves swept through their homes. Most of the victims mainly children and women in in the Keta municipality, had their homes destroyed by the tidal waves. They have since Sunday been left stranded as the waves destroyed schools and churches. For months now, the sea erosion in… Read More
Africa Investments 

Ghana and the African Development Bank Group sign MOU to host 2022 Annual Meetings next May

Elwin Mandowa,
Ghana is set to host the African Development Bank Group’s next Annual Meetings in May 2022, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties on Monday. The 57th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank and the 48th Annual Meeting of the African Development Fund will take place from 23 to 27 May 2022. Because of… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

There Were Unknown Soldiers Before There Are Unknown Gunmen, By Owei Lakemfa

Elwin Mandowa,
I PASSED in front of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA Staff Quarters on Sunday, October 31, 2021 on my way from the Nigeria Media Merit Award programme in Lokoja. As I did, my mind raced back to the issue of insecurity I had raised three days earlier during my keynote address to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Bauchi… Read More
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Mourn The Dead, Fight Like Hell For The Living! By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
Nigerians are no strangers to frequent traumatic losses. Gas explosions. Armory explosions. Oil tanker explosions. Oil rig explosions. House on fire. Factory/Wharehouse on fire. Market on fire. Church on fire. Mosque on fire. Shrine on fire. Forest on fire. Name it. Like all traumatic tragedies, the collapsed  Fourscore 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi Lagos, occurred without warning. Traumatic tragedies… Read More
Africa Gambia West Africa World 

Gambia: Adama Barrow to face five others in presidential poll

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , , ,
– – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow is set to face five other candidates in next month’s presidential election due on December 4. It will be the first time Gambians will be voting for a president without ex-leader Yahya Jammeh contesting. The last time he contested, he refused to concede defeat after losing to current President Adama Barrow. Jammeh however was… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

VP Osinbajo And The Ikoyi Collapsed Building, By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is a gentleman whose political and evangelical integrity is not in any serious doubt. He is not a paragon; therefore, like every mortal, he has his strenghts and weaknesses. (Saints hardly venture into politics, especially the Nigerian murky one). His strenght lies more in his rich ecclesiastical background… Read More
Africa Investments 

COP26: The Africa NDC Hub launches a flagship report on Africa’s NDCs journey and the imperative for climate finance innovation

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank and partner institutions of the Africa NDC Hub have published a flagship report on the status of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Africa and the imperative for climate finance innovation. The report provides key action points needed to bring African countries on course to meeting their commitments under the Paris climate agreement, including setting up system… Read More
Africa Mali West Africa World 

ECOWAS sanctions Mali coup leaders and their families

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , ,
– – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday announced new sanctions on Mali’s coup leaders. At the end of their extra ordinary meeting in Ghana’s capital, Accra, the ECOWAS leaders resolved to impose travel ban and financial asset freeze against the entire members of the Transition Authorities and the other transition institutions. These sanctions will also… Read More
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ECOWAS leaders mourn victims of Sierra Leone explosion

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , ,
There have been disturbing images from footage broadcast on local media outlets with charred bodies seen in the streets at the scene of the explosion. Vice-President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh who visited the scene of the disaster called it a “national disaster”. The head of Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency, Brima Bureh Sesay said “It’s a terrible, terrible accident,” he told… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Climate Of Fear By Niyi Osundare

Elwin Mandowa,
The rains come  too late these days and leave before their time withering fields foretell the coming of furious famines Spring swallows summer summer stumbles into a sweltering fall while winter joins the fray with snowy deluge and blinding ice Unstoppable fires consume the skies from Kangaroo Island** to Paradise***                           Pause A melting Arctic chokes the oceans  which claim… Read More
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