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…

Anthony Joshua’s Lagos–London rise shows how discipline, reinvention, and brand ownership turn a boxer into a global business.

Nigerian universities are in decline, but reforms in funding, curriculum, and governance can still rescue the system and secure the country’s future.

Examining whether Nigeria’s fuel subsidy removal is driving long-term economic growth or just deepening citizens’ suffering.

Sometimes, it appears Nigeria is consistently growing backward. This can be seen in issues and all the mundane things that the country is struggling…

There is an enormous responsibility that this power confers on those who hold it per time. They can either use it to better the lots of their people…

The story that Alhajis Mohammed Tunga and Garba Kamba of Kebbi state conspired to divert N664 million from ‘Imam training’ to their own pockets c…

The wife of the President is sure having a good time in the United Kingdom where she had gone to pay a courtesy visit to her hailing husband, Muhamma…

Nigeria’s GDP performance improved slightly in the 4th quarter of 2016, and showed us a route to recovery. The current recession has affected all o…

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

When President Buhari suddenly left our shores, several weeks ago, he did what our late President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua failed to do which wa…

The Federal Government’s anticipated National Economic Recovery Growth Plan, NERGP, will be ready before the end of February. The NERGP focuses on…

THE West African Examinations Council, WAEC on Friday commended the government of Osun for boosting education system through the introduction of inno…

A former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, is proposing a harmonisation of Nigeria’s monetary and fiscal policy. The recommendation is…

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday called for a quick passage of the 2017 budget by the authorities concerned an…

“This is the constituted authority for Oyo State. Even if I don’t pay salary or I don’t pay this and that, the fact is that I am the constitute…

“Every person in Ghana, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, religion, creed, or gender, shall be entitled to the fundame…
