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“E ku Corona O” By Reuben Abati

March 4, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria, described by one English Language dictionary as the fun-loving people of the Southern part of West Africa have a habit of greeting people over everything. Whatever the matter is, they just like to greet, and they will go to any extent to design a message around any event. If the sun is high… Read More

Investments

“You have been in the trenches with us,”Ghana Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia tells African Development Bank

March 4, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

The African Development Bank’s support for the west African nation Ghana has boosted its government’s efforts to consolidate the economy, the country’s Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia said on Monday. Bawumia, welcoming a team of Executive Directors and senior officials of the Bank on an official visit, cited various Bank-supported projects, especially in the areas of infrastructure, agriculture and technical innovation,… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Murder In Kaduna By Achike Chude

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. –W.E. Yeats Again, again, and again, they come in the middle of the night. Not because they fear recognition and exposure, but because the dead of night is a more effective period when… Read More

Investments

The African Development Bank Group appoints M. Solomon Quaynor as Vice-President, Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Solomon Quaynor as the Vice President for the Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization Complex, effective from 1st May 2020. Quaynor, a national of the United States of America, brings over 25 years of experience in development finance and investment banking. He is an emerging markets specialist with… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Nigeria: The God That Failed In Africa By Bayo Oluwasanmi

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Every day in Nigeria, unspeakable barbaric acts far exceed the imagination of best seller absurdist novelists and comedians. In a well choreographed events after events, we see a nation on implosion suicide hastened by “accelerated decomposition.” Day-in, day-out, we see a government with energetic authoritarianism in the execution of presidential powers that leads to abandonment of civil rights and rule… Read More

Investments

The African Development Bank Group appoints Dr. Kevin Kanina Kariuki as Vice-President, Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kevin Kanina Kariuki as the Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate & Green Growth, effective from 16 April 2020. Kariuki, a Kenyan national, is a chartered electrical engineer with over 30 years of experience in power system development, renewable energy development and energy efficiency, climate change and… Read More

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African Legal Support Facility launches new handbook on sovereign debt at 10th anniversary

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has launched a handbook on sovereign debt aimed at improving users’ understanding of the subject and offering development and implementation strategies and tips to avoid over-indebtedness. The Handbook on Sovereign Debt, produced by the ALSF in collaboration with 11 prominent debt professionals, was officially launched February 27 in Abidjan, on the first day of… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

“Insecurity” In Nigeria: What Can The Left Do? By Edwin Madunagu

March 3, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

Reflections on the current “insecurity” and “threatening state failure” in Nigeria – and what the Nigerian Left can do – recently led me, in a tortuous manner, back to a formulation on revolutionary intervention which I thought I had transcended long ago. We shall first discuss the formulation and then come to “insecurity” and “threatening state failure”. The formulation was… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Samuel Ogundipe: The Bone Is Not Guilty When You Get Cut From Chewing It By Jonathan Abang-Ugbal

March 2, 2020 Elwin MandowaOpinion, saharareporters

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” – Thomas Jefferson. The history of the press in Nigeria is one that can be incorporated as a course for study in the country’s tertiary institutions due to the fact that it has been hailed, abused, encouraged and oppressed by the clergy, nobility… Read More

Investments

African Development Bank Group President Appoints Ms. Bajabulile “Swazi” Tshabalala as Acting Senior Vice President

March 2, 2020 Elwin MandowaAfrica Banking, African Development Bank

The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Bajabulile “Swazi” Tshabalala as Acting Senior Vice President of the Bank with immediate effect. Ms. Tshabalala, currently the Vice President for Finance and Chief Finance Officer for the African Development Bank Group, joined the Bank on August 1, 2018. Ms. Tshabalala will… Read More