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Africa Investments 

Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity

What: Sub-Saharan Africa Dialogue – Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity Who: Kenya’s National Treasury, African Development Bank, Stockholm Environment Institute When: Wednesday 22 July 2020 Abidjan 11:00-13:30 | Nairobi 14:00-16:30 | London 12:00-14:30 Where: Virtual In March 2019, the United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry commissioned an independent review of the economics of biodiversity with the following objectives: to… Read More
Africa Investments 

Fitch Rating Agency Affirms Triple A (AAA) Rating of the African Development Bank, with Stable Outlook

Fitch Ratings, the global credit rating agency, has affirmed the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘AAA’, with stable outlook.  According to the agency, “the ‘AAA’ rating of the AfDB is driven by extraordinary support it receives from its shareholders, which Fitch Ratings assesses at ‘aaa’”. It judged the Bank’s risk management policies as conservative and… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Malami Vs Sowore: When Darkness Is Afraid Of Light By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

Desperation abound when poverty of the mind colludes to accommodate impunity and conspiracy theory motivated by political prebendaries who are the purveyors of all social vices.  The Attorney-General of the Federation,  Abubakar Malami, was not only in a hurry to occupy a vital position in the country, but desperate to allocate to himself what belongs to millions of people. He… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank set to join landmark $20 billion Mozambique LNG financing

The African Development Bank has concluded its bid to co-finance the construction of Mozambique’s integrated Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant by signing a senior loan of $400 million for the transformational project. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project, estimated to cost over $20 billion, is ranked Africa’s single largest foreign direct investment to date. It comprises a global team of… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Tolulope Arotile: Sunset At Dawn By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN)

“Every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria.”  –         Section 33 (1) constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. Nigeria is grieving presently, on account of the… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, ND Avengers; Why No Outrage Over Iniquity At NDDC? By Fredrick Nwabufo

There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted — with connectors to social crusaders, polemists, activists and civic groups. Corruption in Nigeria has a long value chain. The probe of the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over serious allegations of… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Stinkingly Corrupt AG Malami Versus SaharaReporters… Let’s Go There! By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Attorney-General Abubakar Malami (SAN) wrote his Fulani kinsman Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to arrest SaharaReporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, over the newspaper reports exposing his corruption-induced lifestyle. As reported in SaharaReporters on July 18, 2020, the letter states inter alia “… you are hereby issued a seven-day ultimatum to retract all the libellous and criminally defamatory publications, and cause to be issued a public… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Fruitlessness Of An Okonjo-Iweala Leadership Of WTO By Owei Lakemfa

I first met Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during the Obasanjo administration at a conference organised by the newly emergent Due Process Office headed by Mrs. Obiageli (Oby) Katryn Ezekwesili. Okonjo-Iweala was Minister of Finance, so I asked her how much oil Nigeria was producing daily. Conference Chairman, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai (Now Governor of Kaduna State) fumed: “Mr. Lakemfa, let me tell… Read More
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