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Zimbabwe: African Development Bank Executive Directors conduct consultative mission, tour project sites

Elwin Mandowa,
A seven-member delegation of Executive Directors of the African Development Bank visited Zimbabwe on a week-long fact-finding mission where they held meetings with a number of officials including President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. The delegation also met officials from various ministries, civil society, private sector and multilateral financial institutions, during which they were briefed on the current macro-economic, social and political… Read More
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We Need To Save Nigeria From Criminal Justice Sector By Monday O. Ubani

Elwin Mandowa,
With the Blind Lady sign herein, I am sure friends will expect me to talk about the earth-quaking judgment of Justice Okon Abang sending Olisa Metuh, former PDP stalwart, to prison for seven years for sundry offences during the reign of former President GEJ. The topic for that discussion is reserved to a later date. My recent experiences with our… Read More
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Why The Law Requires Pre-election Cases To Be Decided Before Elections By Femi Falana SAN

Elwin Mandowa,
Introduction In a unanimous judgment delivered on February 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria sacked the Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo who had run on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The judgment was nullified on the grounds that Degi-Eremieoyo presented false information to the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) in his… Read More
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It’s A Security Strategy To Involve Miyetti Allah In Amotekun By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in the pursuit of peace. In fact, it imperils security if any stakeholder to the peace is “quarantined” and stereotyped. I believe,… Read More
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Botswana: African Development Bank supports development finance agency BDC with $80 million Line of Credit

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank and the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) on Friday signed a Line of Credit (LOC) totaling $80 million to help scale up key investments in the southern African country. BDC will on-lend to specific target groups, focusing on industrialization including manufacturing, transport and service sectors that have significant development impact. Repayment will be over 10 years, including… Read More
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First ALSF High-level Members Forum

Elwin Mandowa,
What: First ALSF High-Level Members Forum When: 26 and 27 February 2020, 8.30am to 5pm Where: Hotel Radisson Blu, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF or Facility) will organize its first High-Level Members Forum, in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) on the following theme: “ALSF Ten years after: Facilitating investment and maximizing resources for national development” Thirty-four (34) delegations… Read More
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Blyden Amajirionwu: Have Things Become This Bad For Imo State? (Part One) By Chibuike Onyeukwu

Elwin Mandowa,
The final proof that things may have, within the last one month, actually become very bad for our dear state, Imo, is the “open letter” written by one Blyden Amajirionwu purportedly to His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha CON. Amajirionwu’s “open letter” entitled, “Putting Imo First Before Personal Interest, An Appeal To Ihedioha And PDP”, was published in some (Owerri-based)… Read More
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Nigeria’s Electricity Problem: FG vs. DISCOs By Reuben Abati

Elwin Mandowa,
Here is the main problem with Nigeria’s electricity sector: Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, but it has failed consistently to generate, transmit and distribute enough electricity to power its development process and accelerate economic growth.  Between 1999 and 2007, President Olusegun Obasanjo focused on the reform of the electricity sector as one of the major priorities of his administration.… Read More
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North Has Destroyed Itself, Destroyed Nigeria, Separation Is Only Way Forward! By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
The ever blunt plain speaking Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi recently warned that the North will destroy itself if it doesn’t change. Apparently, Sanusi was referring to the northerners who had ruled Nigeria longest since independence. He sounds like the Old Testament prophet of doom with a thundering denunciation: “The rest of the country cannot be investing, educating its children,… Read More
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