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The Emene Massacre! By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
Last Sunday in Emene, Enugu State, a massacre on a small scale of unarmed members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) took place tragically. According to reports online some members of the ‘proscribed’ Biafra nationhood agitators were having a meeting (some say Jewish praying session, others recruitment exercise) inside the Community Secondary School in Emene. And suddenly the Department… Read More

Closing speech by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina President, African Development Bank Group, 2020 Annual Meetings African Development Bank Group – August…

Elwin Mandowa
Honorable Niale Kaba, Chairperson of the Board of GovernorsYour Excellencies, GovernorsMembers of the Board of DirectorsSenior Management and Staff of the African Development BankLadies and Gentlemen The 2020 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank have been exciting, intense, and rich in debate and dialogue! That is what we do at the African Development Bank — thinking and mapping out… Read More
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The Enugu Massacre And Why Tribe Matters By Aloy Ejimakor

Elwin Mandowa,
The invitation admittedly extended to the Army by Enugu Police Commissioner ahead of the deadly shooting at Emene was too prompt and bears stark evidence of premeditation for lethal violence against the Igbo element on the part of the Commissioner of Police. This premeditation stems from the customary lack of compatriot empathy often exhibited by Northern Muslim security chiefs and… Read More
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Martin Luther King’s ‘MIGHTY STREAM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’ By Wole Soyinka

Elwin Mandowa,
On Friday, February 28th, our kinfolk in the United States, standing shoulder to shoulder with their white compatriots of conscience who have repudiated, or are laboring to discard the privileged mores of a culture of racist disdain, will re-enact the great march on Washington that was once led by Martin Luther King. They will re-awaken the convictions that gave birth… Read More
Africa Investments 

2020 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group: Final Communiqué

Elwin Mandowa,
FINAL COMMUNIQUE OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) AND THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND (ADF)HELD VIRTUALLY ON 26th – 27th AUGUST 2020 WE, the Governors, representing Member Countries of the African Development Bank and State Participants of the African Development Fund… Read More
Africa Investments 

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina re-elected unanimously as President of the African Development Bank Group

Elwin Mandowa,
Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank Group on Thursday, August 27, 2020 by the Board of Governors of the Bank. A globally renowned development economist and a World Food Prize Laureate and Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Adesina has distinguished himself in driving a bold agenda… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank 2020 Annual Meetings: Governors’ Dialogue: a key moment of the meetings

Elwin Mandowa,
On the first day of the African Development Bank’s 2020 Annual Meetings, President Akinwumi Adesina on Wednesday 26 August 2020, outlined the Bank’s successes and challenges. During a virtual dialogue with the Governors of the Bank’s 81 member countries, Adesina highlighted the Bank’s efforts to ensure that African countries were cushioned against the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April,… Read More
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Mali’s Mathematics Of Elections By Steve Ogah

Elwin Mandowa,
The coup leaders in Mali are a bunch of disillusioned military men. There are certain areas to point to in their intents, speeches and body languages which indicates they have failed to understand that the world now abhors military dictatorship.  Ever since they catapulted themselves to power on the boisterous waves of anti-president Ibrahim Keita’s civil revolts, colonel Assimi Goita and… Read More
Africa Investments 

Curtain falls on the African Development Bank 2020 Annual Meetings as Governors endorse President Adesina’s bold development program

Elwin Mandowa,
Newly reelected African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina voiced great optimism about Africa’s future as the institution closed its 55th Annual meetings. The Bank’s Board of Governors today unanimously voted for a second five-year term for Adesina, giving him a mandate to renew a focus on the institution’s priorities, including closer continental integration, boosting renewable energy sources and developing infrastructure.… Read More
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