Akinwumi Adesina: Feeding Africa, Financing Growth, and Leading with Optimism
Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
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Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
Adebayo Ogunlesi built a playbook for owning and operating world-class infrastructure—airports, energy assets, and transport—by stacking law, finance…

Aliko Dangote scaled from trading to continent-wide manufacturing, proving African industry can build durable moats and reliability at scale.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s biography explores her rise from Nigerian academia to WTO Director-General, inspiring women and reformers.

Can Nigerian startups thrive without venture capital? Explore bootstrapping, government policy, and the resilience of entrepreneurs in Africa’s large…

Nigerian e-commerce is growing fast. Can local startups like Jumia and Konga withstand competition from Amazon and Alibaba while fixing logistics and…

Many relationships today experiences one kind of problem or the other that are related to money. Marriages are not exempted as well. The other day, I…

A financial analyst and Head, Banking and Finance Department at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Dr. Uche Uwaleke, says it has become imperative…

It is no longer news that housing is one of the major problems in Nigeria today. Not just housing as it were – but a decent and affordable housing…

How will you deal with Malabu?

“I will not rest until I address those issues that affect our people. One of these basic things is the issue of salaries. It is most important that…

Human wants they say are insatiable – that they are endless and no man can ever meet them all. While that may be true, we know that there is a diff…

The Nigerian government plans to sell N1.13 trillion (about $3.70 billion) worth of treasury bills between March 16 and June 1, a Central Bank of Nig…

Barring any unforeseen development, the Federal Government will this week unfold its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which is expected to o…

A leading economist and financial derivatives analyst, Bismarck Rewane, has predicted that Nigeria will start to experience a ‘slow’ but ‘painf…

When the late Dele Giwa wrote more than 30 years ago that Nigerians have been shocked to the state of “unshockabilityâ€, he was basing his thesis…

“After I was called and I went to Abuja, and I sat with Mr President or General Buhari then, I said why me? ‘I’m not a politician’, ‘I do n…

It is not an exaggeration to say that the battle to achieve the global society’s stated objectives on hunger and poverty reduction will be won or los…
