The African Development Bank has hosted a High-level Member States Engagement Framework Workshop in Abidjan. It was hosted under the auspices of the Office of the Secretary General and General Secretariat in collaboration with the Regional Development Complex. This provided an opportunity for the Bank to reaffirm its commitment to collaborate with its 54 regional…
Seven newly elected Nigerian State Governors visited the African Development Bank Group in Abidjan to strengthen cooperation and unlock the country’s vast agricultural potential. The delegation, meeting with Bank President Dr Akinwumi Adesina, was led by Katsina State Governor Mallam Dikko Umar Radda, and included Governors Dr Nasiru Idris of Kebbi State, Alhaji Umar Namadi…
STATEMENT DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 78TH SESSION OF UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 18TH SEPTEMBER 2023 Mr. President, Heads of State and Government, Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. President, On behalf of the people of Nigeria, I congratulate…
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has commended the author of the book on ‘Cyber Politics’, Dr. Omoniyi Ibietan, for its uncommon industry, literary efforts, and activism in trying to make the society better through shared knowledge. The public presentation of the book: “Cyber Politics: Social Media, Social…
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) is today rounding off the fifth edition of the “NLNG Change Your Story”, the annual capacity-building workshop for journalists, focusing on digital communication skills, mobile journalism, and multimedia journalism sponsored by the organisation since 2015. The workshop which is organised in collaboration with ‘The Journalism Clinic’’, a foremost media training institution,…
For almost four decades, Nigeria has been going round in circles, trapped in the wilderness of a Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), which was supposed to take her to the Promised Land, but is obviously yet to, and which the proponents will argue is our fault. Nigeria remains marooned in no man’s land, sapped of the…
Again, we are back at this conversation about the conditional cash transfer scheme. If you have been engaged in a bit of social listening since the announcement of a proposed payment of N8000 to the most vulnerable in form of conditional cash transfer was announced, you could not but have noticed the talkdown about it….
It’s been just over one week since the Central Bank of Nigeria announced what it referred to as “operational changes to the foreign exchange market”, which saw to the abolishment of segmentation, with all segments collapsed into the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window. Between June 15th when the change of policy, which was designed to…
There is a whole lot of confusion around/about Petrol Subsidy. That has always been so. Perhaps to do with the nature of oil and trade in the product. The Oil industry, especially in Nigeria, comes across as one sworn to a frustrating level of opacity. That is even more so on issues to do with…
By Simbo Olorunfemi “It always seems impossible until it’s done” – Nelson Mandela By all standards, the commissioning of the Dangote refinery and petrochemical project after almost 10 years since the dream was conceived is a phenomenal statement on the fact that nothing is impossible if we will draw to dream, set our minds to…
