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It’s Time To Run Nigeria’s Tertiary Institutions As Business Ventures By Olabisi Deji-Folutile

Elwin Mandowa,
Sometimes when you hear certain things about Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions, you cannot help but weep for this country. You just keep asking yourself how things got so degenerated and why helps seem far away. That was exactly the anguish I suffered reading the story of the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof Emeka Obe, and his… Read More
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Jollof Rice, Akufo-Addo And Other Things We Don’t Like About Ghana By Azu Ishiekwene

Elwin Mandowa,
Three years ago, it was a war spiced with condiments and paste over a dish of grain. Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed was answering a question by CNN’s Richard Quest about who makes the tastiest jollof rice in West Africa.  But Mohammed heard the question wrong. He thought Quest’s question was about the origin of jollof rice and answered Senegal. The… Read More
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Blasphemy: Free Umar Farouq Now By Leo Igwe

Elwin Mandowa,
While efforts are being made to save the life of a 22-year-old Muslim singer, Yahaya Aminu-Sharif, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, the world should not forget Umar Farouq. The international community should pressure the governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje, to free this 13-year-old boy from prison because he committed no crime. Like Aminu-Sharif, Farouk was accused of… Read More
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National Water Resources Bill: Buhari Is Callous And Clueless By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
Major General Muhammadu Buhari has again resurrected the National Water Resources Bill that was overwhelmingly rejected by Nigerians in 2018. Renamed National Water Bill 2020, the National Assembly in collusion with Buhari has referred the bill to a “committee of the whole” for third reading and passage. As expected, the bill was vehemently attacked by prominent Nigerians including Nobel Laureate… Read More
Africa Investments 

Virtual workshop on designing the African Development Bank’s Public Private Partnership framework

Elwin Mandowa,
The Bank will hold a virtual consultative  workshop to discuss approaches and options in designing its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Framework on 8 September 2020, at 12:30 GMT. The Bank’s PPP Framework is intended to guide its support for and implementation of PPPs in African countries. What: Virtual Workshop on designing the African Development Bank’s PPP Framework Who: African Development Bank, supported… Read More
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Fani-Kayode: ‘Stupid’ Question, Stupid Answer By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
The former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), could be described as a glorified social critic, who thinks that the rest of us owe him the entitlement of national recognition. In a nation where big executive fools comport themselves as gods and demi-gods, nothing less is expected from the Fani-Kayodes of this world in their pompous haughty heights. Nigeria presents an international image of… Read More
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Good Character Is The Most Valuable Asset By Richard Odusanya

Elwin Mandowa,
When God sees your motives and sincerity, he elevates you beyond the ordinary. A man’s character is his fate. Thomas H Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America(US) said, “nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” People self-sabotage… Read More
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Untapped $500m Funding Opportunity For Nigeria Health Sector By Toluwani Oluwatola

Elwin Mandowa,
The Nigerian health sector is underfunded. While this is no new development, the COVID-19 pandemic brought this to the fore once again. In a previous article, I observed that the allocation to the health sector in the past five years had averaged less than five per cent of total budgetary allocation in flagrant disobedience to the 2001 Abuja declaration made… Read More
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