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We Can’t All Be Xenophobes By Olalekan Adigun

Elwin Mandowa,
The famous Mayflower School, Ikenne was founded on strong principles of problem-solving, self-sufficiency, and humanism. Its founder, Dr. Tai Solarin, is a renowned humanist and educationist established in 1956. The ex-Mays (as the Mayflower alumni are called) who were around either when late Solarin was actively teaching (at a time when William F. Kumuyi attended in the 1970s) or in… Read More
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Dialectics Of ‘Revolution’ And ‘Democratic Evolution’ By Edwin Madunagu

Elwin Mandowa,
At the height of the armed insurrection against the American State in Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, one of the armed rebels was recorded by the BBC as saying: “This country was founded on revolutionary principles. But it became civil when they got what they wanted.” The particular insurrectionary act was the armed attack, by a mob, on that… Read More
Africa Featured Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo re-elected as ECOWAS Chair

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– – Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday was re-elected as Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a statement the authority said the Ghanaian President will serve another one-year term as Chair of ECOWAS. It said “the Authority calls on His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,… Read More
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Eviction Orders Here And There Will Make Us Refugees In Our Own Country, By Fredrick Nwabufo

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It takes just a moment of indignation to destroy; to cast down and cast out. It is easier to destroy than to build. And what is broken sometimes cannot be put together again. Why are we at daggers drawn with one another? Why are we at each other’s throat? Why the hate-slinging? In the south, the drumbeats of war are… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank to join UNFPA to commemorate International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

Elwin Mandowa,
What: Global high-level event to accelerate investment and action to end female genital mutilation Who: African Development Bank Group, United Nations Population Fund When: 5 February 2021; 13:30 – 14:25 GMT Where: Virtual  (YouTube) African Development Bank Group Acting Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Wambui Gichuri, will represent the Bank’s President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina at a… Read More
Africa Business World 

Here are 20 of Africa’s best countries to do business

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The World Bank Group has a major flagship publication which it publishes every year called the Doing Business report. The 2020 publication is the 17th in a series of annual studies measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business, according to World Bank “presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that… Read More
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Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo completes Saudi move

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– – Former Nigeria striker Odion Ighalo, whose loan spell at Manchester United ended recently, has completed a move to Saudi Arabian Pro League club Al Shabab. The 31-year-old has left Chinese outfit Shanghai Shenhua after agreeing a two-and-a-half-year deal with the six-time Saudi champions. Ighalo has already taken to social media to say his goodbyes to his parent club after… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana: 15 MPs and 56 parliamentary staff infected with Covid-19

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– – Ghana’s parliament has announced that at least 15 lawmakers and 56 other parliamentary staffers have tested positive for Covid-19. The rate of infection was detected following a mass testing of legislators and workers at the legislature. Speaker of Ghana’s parliament Alban Kingsford Bagbin had threatened to publish names of MPs who showed up in the chamber despite their… Read More
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Sunday Igboho: One Shouldn’t Enjoy The Privileges Of Royalty And Defecate On Oneself By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

Elwin Mandowa,
Crimes has no tribe or religion, the perpetrators  domiciled in every nooks and crannies of the country. Ethnicity has been the major problems that  ripped off our coexistence for peace and stability, Sango Kataf crisis still fresh in my memories.  Our society has becomes a designated survival, we are in a  valley of a tactless and horrible atmospheric pressure. The… Read More
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Bobi Wine And The Old African Brew By Azu Ishiekwene

Elwin Mandowa,
After the presidential election in Uganda, it dawned on me that there are two people in the country who don’t fear President Yoweri Museveni: one is his tailor, and the other is his political rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously called Bobi Wine. Museveni’s tailor makes his suits in complete disregard of tailoring measurements. It would appear that either the president… Read More
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