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OP-ED Opinions 

Bandits Take Over Abuja While DSS, Police Go After Protesters By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
Nothing puts greater timbre on the parlous state of security in the country than the denudation of the virtual hedges and moats around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and the disarray of the phalanx of boots in the city. Abuja was once assumed to be impregnable and residents lived with a false sense of security. But the terrorist blitzes in… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank Webinar: Asian Private Sector – Doing Business in Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
What: Webinar for the Asian Private Sector on Doing Business in Africa Who: African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 08.00 am to 10.00 am GMT13.30-15.30 pm, (Delhi), 16.00-18.00 pm, (Beijing),17.00-19.00 pm, (Seoul) Where: Virtual Until the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa was the second fastest growing continent outside Asia. The continent’s growth over the past decade, has seen the longest… Read More
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Nigeria: A Failed State Or A World Capital Of Poverty? By Abdulkadir Salaudeen

Elwin Mandowa,
Nigerians should brace up for the many hard times ahead. The future is very dim and very gloomy. This is not an unnecessary pessimism; it is a reality which every mindful person can see. The country has become an enslaved territory with ‘sovereignty’— a phantom sovereignty. If failures are categorized, this government is a failure of an unprecedented category. In… Read More
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Oluwarotimi Akeredolu And His Carrot And Stick Approach By Tunde Akingbondere

Elwin Mandowa,
Calamity rocked the earth as thunder, the mountains have tumbled, birds chirped in mockery as they all scamper into the refuge of their nests. They have hustled and grumbled, they wallowed in Fela’s world of “shuffering and shmiling,” for they have been derobed in a broad day light. Oh!  goddamn! They have been deprived of their nectars as blossoming flowers,… Read More
Africa Investments 

Supporting Public Private Partnerships in Africa: African Development Bank ready to scale up

Elwin Mandowa,
Representatives of the African Development Bank, governments, Development Finance Institutions, the private sector and  professional associations joined a September 8 workshop to discuss how the Bank can strengthen support for Public Private Partnerships and channel greater investment toward economic and social infrastructure. The event, titled Designing the African Development Bank’s PPP Framework, was hosted virtually by the Bank.  The workshop… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank approves $27.33 million to ramp up the African Union’s COVID-19 Response Initiative

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors on Wednesday approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval follows a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads of State and Government with Africa’s private sector on 22 April 2020, chaired by H.E.… Read More
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2023 Presidential Election: Igbos Are Disillusioned And Distracted By Churchill Okonkwo

Elwin Mandowa,
As the saying goes, if you run after two hares, you will catch neither. So, it follows that if you are agitating for an independent state of Biafra and insisting on a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023, then you will end up empty. The reason is simple, a chattering bird builds no nest. Chasing after an independent state… Read More
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An Open Letter To The Christian Association Of Nigeria: Will The Leadership Of Can Escape Judgment If Yahaya Aminu Sharif Is Executed? By Nnamdi Abana

Elwin Mandowa,
There is an ongoing controversial case of blasphemy in Kano, the Northern part of Nigeria, which is generating much controversy across the country and beyond but the most shocking shade of the case is the statement issued by the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria whose position should be based on the tenets of the Christian faith which they… Read More
Africa Investments 

Small and medium enterprises lynchpin of African agriculture – African Development Bank

Elwin Mandowa,
A panel of some of Africa’s most promising small and medium-enterprise (SME) agripreneurs gathered online to call for more selective investment, accelerated business acquisitions and increased cooperation to help Africa feed itself and the world. The African Development Bank organized the virtual session, Integrating African Food Systems through the Lens of SME Champions, as a side-event ahead of Africa’s largest agriculture… Read More
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