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Hakainde Hichilema takes over as Zambia’s new president

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , ,
– – Hakainde Hichilema has taken over as Zambia’s new president after winning a historic election by defeating incumbent Edgar Lungu this month. It was his sixth bid for the presidency and his 2021 victory with almost one million votes more than his rival signalled a landslide victory. Hichilema’s electoral success has inspired many opposition politicians who are fighting hard… Read More
Africa Investments 

2021 Singapore Africa Business Forum: In Africa, challenges are the opportunities despite Covid-19

Elwin Mandowa,
The global Covid-19 pandemic should not dampen investor appetite in Africa. The continent remains an investment destination of choice despite the challenges, panelists at an opening session of the 2021 Africa Singapore Business Forum heard today. Trade between Singapore and Africa has been growing steadily over the past five years, with Singapore being among the top 10 investors in Africa.… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Privatisation Of NNPC: The Most Fundamental Problem With The Petroleum Industry Act (Pia) By Femi Aborisade, Esq.

Elwin Mandowa,
On the 16th day of August 2021, President Mohammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. The PIB is henceforth to be referred to as the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), pursuant to the assent of Mr. President. The PIA has been mostly criticized for providing that the Joint Venture Partners, called Settlors, shall contribute only 3% of their… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Grazing Sites: Buhari’s Political Madness, By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
Each day, General Muhammadu Buhari makes a compelling cinematic portrait for the break up of Nigeria. Last week, Buhari approved the recommendation of a committee to review “with dispatch 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country.” On May 11, 2021, in Asaba, Delta State, 17 Southerner governors under the umbrella of Southern Governors’ Forum met and staunchly opposed… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Femi Fani-Kayode: A Sniff Of Foolishness By Remi Oyeyemi

Elwin Mandowa,
“The stubborn listens to nobody’s advice and becomes a victim of his own delusion.”— Aesop He came out smoking. He was fire-cracking. He flailed feebly and floutingly. He gamboled ghoulishly and ghastly. It was a berserk noctambulism. Dipped in the natatorium of perplexity resulting from his own peccadilloes, he desperately swam like a cat fish in a poisoned pond. He… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

PMB: Call HIM The Master Finisher: A Rejoinder to Femi Adesina By Umar Ardo (PhD)

Elwin Mandowa,
I read with utter disgust, but not disbelief, the above-titled article credited to Femi Adesina, Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, in which he extolled his principal as the master finisher of abandoned projects. Castigating former leaders of the country in the said article, Adesina said his principal has turned Nigeria into heaven of finished projects. Even… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Attorney General of Rivers State v. FIRS & Anor: A misguided Decision By Kola Oyekan

Elwin Mandowa,
The Federal High Court of Nigeria, sitting at Port Harcourt division presided by His Lordship,  Hon. Justice Stephen Dalyop Pam delivered a 45- page judgment on the 9th August 2021 in an  action instituted by the Attorney General of Rivers State against the Federal Inland Revenue  Service and the Attorney General of the Federation as the 2nd defendant. In this… Read More
Africa Investments 

Burkina Faso, a program to build resilience to food insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS)

Elwin Mandowa,
Though affected by the political upheavals in Burkina Faso, the Programme to Build Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS), created to “strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations to food and nutrition insecurity by addressing the structural causes of acute and chronic food and nutrition crises,” has not deviated from its objectives. Focusing in particular on the… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Tulsa race massacre survivors visit Ghana, accept citizenship

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , , ,
– – Two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in Oklahoma, United States of America are currently touring Ghana, their first visit to the continent. Viola Ford Fletcher, 107 and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100 are the last two known living survivors of the 1921 racist massacre in Tulsa. On May 31, 1921, a group of Black men… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Afghan Taliban Tragedy, By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
The Taliban extremist forces are back in power in Afghanistan. Following the gradual withdrawal of the American occupation forces the religious ‘terrorist’ government took effective control of the entire Afghan territory, one village, town or city after another, in a record speed encountering little or no resistance as they marched to the capital city, Kabul. Kabul fell to the shocking… Read More
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