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Gabon COVID 19: Q and A with Country Manager Robert Masumbuko

June 29, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

1. The African Development Bank has just approved a EUR 100.5 million loan as budget support to help tackle COVID-19. What does it mean to the government and people of Gabon? A friend in need is a friend indeed: Gabon is faced with a double crisis of COVID-19 and fall in oil prices, the main source of income of the… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

For 2023: Tinubu Or The Cows? By Bayo Oluwasanmi

June 29, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

April 8, 2018, I penned a piece in SaharaReporters titled APC Satan PDP Lucifer. I argued in the piece that the two political parties are the same. I said, “A political party is about ideology. The ideology of both parties is corruption… APC is Satan, PDP is Lucifer. Membership of both parties has become political cross fertilization. Both parties have… Read More

Investments

“One” WASH program improves well-being of vulnerable communities in Ethiopia

June 29, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

Ethiopia’s ‘One’ model, under which the government runs its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ( WASH ) National Program, has steadily improved the well-being of the country’s rural and urban communities, top local officials say. “The ‘One’ here means we have one account, one budget and one report in one consolidated WASH Account,” says Tadesse Masresha, Coordinator for the Regional WASH… Read More

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Ndigbo: Before Restructure, Beyond Biafra By SKC Ogbonnia

June 29, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

In the piece, Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home.” The lessons from the virus also strike a chord with the famous quotation: the “fierce urgency of now”, where Martin Luther King demanded action in the… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

SARS: Protectors Or Predators? By Seun Bakare

June 28, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

That the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria police continues to use torture and other unlawful tactics in the discharge of their law enforcement duties is not exactly a newsworthy item; we have always known this. If a poll were created now on Nigerians’ perception of that unit, the result would be easily predictable. Police brutality is a major… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Malami: Portrait Of A “Barrier-in-Chief” By Godwin Onyeacholem

June 28, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Much as one tries, it has been difficult to find something for which to commend Nigeria’s current Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. He has been the chief law officer of the country since he was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the take-off of his administration in 2015, and re-appointed in 2019 as Buhari returned for… Read More

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The 9th National Assembly In Its First Year By Sesugh Akume

June 27, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Of the 109 senators of the 9th National Assembly (NASS) with only 7 women (representing 6.4% one of the lowest in the world — with only 1 woman out of 57 senators from the 19 states of the entire northern Nigeria) 2 women are among the 10 best performing senators by number of bills sponsored. The 2 incidentally are from… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

The 9th National Assembly In Its First Year By Sesugh Akume

June 27, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

OP-ED Opinions

Oluwo Akanbi: The Abominable Royalty! By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

June 27, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Like Ile-Ife Iwo is an old town in Osun State reputed worldwide for its great tradition and culture. For centuries great men had emerged as Obas to represent a great cultural heritage in Yorubaland. With the gradual devaluation and desecration of our traditional institutions kingdoms are being demystified by corruption and erosion of values hitherto held dear. Nigeria is losing… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Ize-Iyamu Vs Obaseki: The Wheel Comes Full Circle By Tony Ademiluyi

June 27, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

In 2016, political pundits opined that the successor to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole would be Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. The Redeemed Christian Church of God Area pastor had come a long way in the game called politics. He started it long before Oshiomhole dreamt of becoming the governor of the state fondly known as the ‘Heartbeat of the nation.’ As far back… Read More