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Africa Investments 

Libya: African Development Bank grants $0.5 million emergency relief assistance for PPE protection against COVID-19

Elwin Mandowa,
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank have approved a grant of $480,000 to Libya under the Special Relief Fund (SRF) for the procurement of much-needed personal protective equipment (PPE) intended for treatment of cases of infection of the novel Coronavirus. The Bank’s funding  will contribute to supporting the country’s national Response Plan for COVID-19. The assistance is… Read More
Africa Investments 

First flood, then drought: climate-resilience project helps farmers thrive in Mozambique

Elwin Mandowa,
Mozambican farmer Alima Matusse is the head of a household of six and she used to worry that her children would go without nutritious food because her small plot of land was bone dry in the hot season and waterlogged when it rained. Thanks to a climate-resilience project providing irrigation and drainage in her home province of Gaza, Matusse has… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Hunter Has Become The Hunted (The Story Of The Attorney-General And EFCC Chairman) By Achike Chude

Elwin Mandowa,
This is the problem with power. It makes people mad. A man of wisdom once said that: ‘No man is so wise and so good to be given absolute power’. It is because of the corrosive and corruptive influence of power that Baron Dr Montesqui warned people and nations everywhere to beware. Mobutu Seseseko Ngbendu Wa Ba Zanga, the dictator… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Let The Church O Satan Be By Adeola Soetan

Elwin Mandowa,
Demolishing Church of Satan is Ungodly. Let’s Respect people’s fundamental right and freddom of worship. By consensus, it’s agreed that Satan has more followers than God in Nigeria because of corruption, misgovernance, election rigging, electoral violence, vote buying, individual immorality in keeping sidechicks, sidecocks, drinking alcohol (minus cold Trophy and palmwine), womanizing, manizing, embezzlement of church, mosque and shrine fund,… Read More
Africa Investments 

Maroc : la station d’Oum Azza alimente en eau potable plus de cinq millions de personnes sur l’axe Rabat-Casablanca

Elwin Mandowa,
Ahmed Attari est devenu propriétaire d’un appartement à Tamesna, une commune située à une vingtaine de kilomètres de Rabat, qui a émergé pour absorber le surcroît de population de la capitale marocaine. Ses dizaines de milliers d’habitants sont aujourd’hui approvisionnés en eau potable par la toute nouvelle station d’épuration d’Oum Azza, construite grâce à un soutien de la Banque africaine de… Read More
Africa Investments 

Weather data helps authorities respond to deadly floods in Abidjan

Elwin Mandowa,
When torrential rains and flash floods deluged parts of Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital, Abidjan, an African Development Bank investment in weather data was critical in the disaster response efforts. While heavy rainfall is not unusual for Abidjan from May to July, the sheer volume experienced recently caused significant damage. At its peak, water levels reached half the height of a… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

EFCC: The ‘Mugu’ In Magu! By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
When in 2003 during the Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘babacracy’ the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was formed genuine hope was raised in many quarters that Nigeria could still be saved from herself; saved from her national endemic corruption index. Three years prior to the establishment of the EFCC the then President Obasanjo had equally inaugurated the Independent Corrupt Practices and… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Edo State Election: Adams Oshiomhole’s Last Dance By Osahon Pius Airewele

Elwin Mandowa,
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils (George Orwell). It is a settled matter now that Godwin Obaseki and Pastor Ize-Iyamu.aka POI, will present Edo State electorate with a binary choice in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections, both of them arranged under their new party leaders, with renewed and concerting measures in opposition to each other.  The Edo… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

EFCC New Pick: Buhari Is A Bigot And Nepotist By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
President Muhammadu Buhari continues to fester the sore of our historically fragile ethnic divide by his bigotry and nepotism. Since he assumed office, his appalling goal is to pit the North against the South. His motive is for crass political domination. In my piece titled After Magu, Another Muslim Fulani Police Officer Should Head EFCC published in SaharaReporters July 7,… Read More
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