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OP-ED Opinions 

Ina Mubarak Bala Yake? Where is Mubarak Bala? By Leo Igwe

Elwin Mandowa,
Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala has been held incommunicado since his arrest in April. The police in Kano have not granted him access to a lawyer and to family members. Several petitions have been sent to the police in Kano urging them to release Mr Bala. But these entreaties have largely been ignored. Several representations have been made to the governor… Read More
Investments 

African countries making headway in tackling tax evasion and money laundering, 2020 Tax Transparency report says

Elwin Mandowa,
African countries made great strides in strengthening commitments and capacity to achieve tax transparency and exchange information on illicit fund flows in 2019, the latest Tax Transparency in Africa report, launched Thursday, revealed. Tax Transparency in Africa 2020 – produced by the Global Forum for Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, the African Union and African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), in… Read More
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The Book On Trump And Why Biden Needs Political Electricity By Chido Nwangwu

Elwin Mandowa,
Remarkably and with astonishingly fake intensity, President Trump has pinned something about the Bidens being the personification of corruption in Ukraine and wherever…. I pinch myself, awakening from an Orwellian dizzying spin, fittingly remembering the certain truths from Wes Fesler. He, the one who wrote the timeless words that Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of… Read More
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The Dismissal of N-Power Volunteers In This Period Of Pandemic Is Disastrous By Abdulkadir Salaudeen

Elwin Mandowa,
I will not go into detail in explaining what N-power is. It is a very popular program credited to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari; and it is known to all and sundry. I have thought, and I hope not wrongly, that the program will be one of,if not the only good thing that the President will be remembered for. It is a form of social safety net meant to prevent the most vulnerable Nigerians… Read More
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Good Night Comrade Ayodele Akele- The Bridge Builder Of The “Have Nots” By Kayode Oladele And Sina Loremikan

Elwin Mandowa,
After a prolonged sickness, Comrade Ayodele Akele, the ageless giant fighter for social justice finally succumbed to the cold hands of death on June 23,  2020.  As a student of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos in 1980, Comrade Akele played a leading role in the formation of the  National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) after the proscription of the… Read More
Investments 

African Development Fund approves COVID-19 Response grants for six Southern African countries and São Tomé & Príncipe

Elwin Mandowa,
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund on Tuesday approved nearly $8.9 million in grant funding to bolster COVID-19-related control measures in six Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. Separately, the Board approved $683,000 in grants to São Tomé & Príncipe, to support the two-island nation’s response to the pandemic and its impacts. The grant funding comes under the… Read More
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Buhari Backs Giadom: Has Tinubu Finally Been Tamed? By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow. She said her husband was ‘’trashed’’ (her word) after the 2015 election. Her wailing: “I was hurt (by) what they did to my husband after the campaign …he didn’t say a thing. We were running three campaigns in my house… Read More
Nigeria News and Headlines OP-ED Opinions 

Using COVID-19 Donations To Give Charity A Bad Name By Azu Ishiekwene

Elwin Mandowa,
Global response to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Africa has been remarkable, especially following fears that should the virus take hold, its impact on the continent could be catastrophic.  Twenty of the 80 beneficiaries of the $50bn announced as emergency financing facility by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are in Africa.  The charity map also shows that the World… Read More
Nigeria News and Headlines OP-ED Opinions 

Unprecedentedly Damaging Allegation Against Buhari By Tinubu’s APC Faction By Farooq Kperogi

Elwin Mandowa,
The Tinubu/Ajimobi faction of APC said in a press release today that Buhari was “blackmailed into lending his weighty office to” the Victor Giadom faction of the party. “Blackmail”? Ha! Blackmail is the threat to harm or expose reputationally injurious information about a person unless the person does what the blackmailer wants. In other words, according to the press release,… Read More
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